Tanjore and Mysore Painting - A comparision

In southern India, two types of gesso art are predominantly found.

# The Mysore style
# The Tanjore style

Each is influenced by the other and thus evolved to where it is now. I wanted to post a comparison chart of the two traditional schools of classical Indian painting, compiled from all those Museum visits and learning.

Tanjore Traditional Art	Mysore Traditional Art
Cloth base mounted on wood.	Paper base mounted on canvas or wood.
For gesso effects, raw lime powder with a tamarind seed paste used.	White lead or Chalk Powder is used along with Arabic gum crystals.
Gesso is applied in high relief	Gesso is applied in low relief
Gold coated silver wafers are used	Pure gold wafers are used
The coating is less durable	The gesso work is long lasting
Numerous other ingredients like Perl, Mirror, beads, sequins and amber is used for embellishing	Traditional works are devoid of such colorful decor.
Most depict scenes from Hindu mythologies specially Vishnu.	Dress and ornaments reflect period fashion with close resemblance to the Mysore kings. Architecture, designs closely resemble to the houses and palaces of Wodeyars.
The characters are not naive and detailed as that in Mysore Style.	Faces of common folk are shown round, while the faces of deities shown slightly elongated.

The paintings are mostly of Vishnu, his incarnations and characters that surround him.	The paintings mostly evolve around Shiva.

And one of my Mysore Painting.