Adaikalanathar Church – First Lutheran Church in Madras

The First Lutheran Church in Madras, its beginnings were in a church founded by a catechist, Adaikalam Pillai, in Purasawalkkam in 1846. In 1848, it formally became Lutheran Church, its First Pastor, Carl Friedrich Kremmer, arriving from Germany that November. The Church in Tana street, is still known as the Adaikalanathar Church, but pictures of […]

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Art Through Ages – what is its subject?

Another major concern of art historians is, of course, subject matter. Some artworks, such as modern abstract paintings (Fig 1) , have no subject, understanding of the work. Art historians traditionally separate pictorial subjects into various categories, such as religious, historical, mythological, genre (daily life), portraiture, landscape (a depiction of a place), still life (an […]

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