Amerapoora: Toung-lay-lou-tiy Kyoung
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Most of the monasteries Tripe encountered in Burma were made of wood, but a few monumental brick monasteries, such as this one, were constructed in the eighteenth century. In this photograph, he focused on the massive staircase, with its sweeping balustrades and profuse ornamentation. The name Tripe recorded, Toung-lay-lou-tiy, may be a corruption of Taung leh lon ("four mountains"), for Amerapoora was understood, like the sacred mountain in Burmese cosmology, to be surrounded by four peaks.
Artwork Details
- Title: Amerapoora: Toung-lay-lou-tiy Kyoung
- Artist: Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822–1902 Devonport)
- Date: September 1–October 21, 1855
- Dimensions: image: 26.6 × 33.5 cm (10 1/2 × 13 3/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Stephen G. Stein Fund
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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