Tanjore painting is referred as Thanjavur Oviyam in Tamil. It is considered an important form of classical South Indian painting which originated from Thanjavur –Tamilnadu and this word Thanjavur was anglicized as Tanjore. Tanjore paintings is usually on a solid wood planks- palagai padam (palagai = "wooden plank";
padam = "picture").
padam = "picture").
