Himalayan Art Resources

Subject: Inscriptions Main Page

Inscriptions Main Page | Painting & Composition Types

Painting Inscriptions:
- Front, painting
- Front, cartouche
- Front, Name or narrative inscriptions
- Front, decorative letters, book titles
- Front, dedication inscriptions
- Front, under-drawing, artist notations
- Front, under-drawing, sanctification & mantras
- Front stick, bottom or top
- Back, painting
- Back stick, bottom or top
- Back, Stupa or design
- Back, direction notations: right, left, East, West, etc.
- Others...

Videos:
- Inscriptions on Paintings, Part 1
- Inscriptions on Paintings, Part 2

Sculpture Inscriptions: Persons, Deities
- Base front
- Base back
- Surrounding entire base
- Flat plane: front
- Flat plane: back
- Back: om, ah, hum
- Letters on robes
- Book title
- Direction notations: right, left, East, West, etc.
- Others...

Jeff Watt [updated 12-2018]

(The images below are only a selection of examples).