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Calambur Sivaramamurti | |
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| Occupation(s) | Art historian, art critic, epigraphist, philologist, museologist, archaeologist, numismatist, Sanskrit scholar, literary critic |
| Awards | Padma Shri Padma Bhushan |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Madras Museum Archaeological Survey of India |
| Notable works | L'Art en Inde Nataraja in Art, Thought, and Literature |
Vicitracitta Calambur Sivaramamurti FRAS (1909–1983) was an Indian museologist, art historian and epigraphist who is primarily known for his work as curator in the Government Museum, Chennai.[1] and Sanskrit scholar. His entire life has been devoted to the study and exposition of various aspects of Indian art. Apart from authoring several monographs, guide books on Indian art, he also wrote a seminal work on South Indian epigraphy.
He received the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, and was selected as the inaugural and prototype Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow. He was additionally an honorary Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Shankaracharya Chandrashekarendra Saraswati created him Vicitracitta as a personal honour. He was a member of the Calamur family.
- ^ A, Srivathsan (13 August 2008). "In Madras Museum, antique sculptures in neglect". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2011.