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* Unrivalled showcase of sixteenth-century Vijayanagara architecture and art. . * More than 200 images, specially commissioned from an outstanding photographer of southern Indian art. . * Offers a complete description of the temple's architecture, sculptures and paintings. . * Authors are renowned specialists in architecture, painting and textile design. . * Ceiling paintings are the best preserved examples of Vijayanagara pictorial art . . Hidden away in the remote village of Lepakshi in the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, merely a couple of hours' drive from Bengaluru, is one of the most spectacular Vijayanagara temples. Unlike so many other religious monuments of the period that have suffered disfiguring additions, or have lost their original carvings and ceiling paintings, that at Lepakshi dedicated to Virabhadra, a fierce emanation of Shiva, is miraculously intact.