This is a Sinhala-language study of mural painting in Sri Lanka's Catholic churches. The title names its subject directly: the wall paintings found in Catholic places of worship on the island, treated as a body of art.
Church murals sit at an unusual meeting point in Sri Lankan visual culture. The subject matter arrived with European missionaries, but the hands that painted much of it were local, trained in or adjacent to traditions that had long decorated temple walls. Writing on this material in Sinhala is not common, and a book devoted to it will interest anyone following the island's religious art, its Catholic communities along the western coast, or the question of how imported iconography settles into local practice.
The author is Lakshman Henry Silva. The publisher is Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house issuing titles in Sinhala and English across history, religion, literature and the arts.
Please note that the text is entirely in Sinhala. There is no English edition or parallel translation here, so buyers outside Sri Lanka should be comfortable reading Sinhala script. For readers who are, this is a focused book on a subject that rarely gets one.
- Author: Lakshman Henry Silva
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 120
- ISBN: 9789553027979
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