Life Story Paintings (Composition & Presentation) | Life Story Paintings Main Page

3. Composition, Layout & Presentation of Life Story Paintings: Life story paintings are depicted in several different formats. A story can be painted as an individual composition depicting the entire narrative on a single canvas. The story can be divided into sections and narrated using a number of individual compositions with the full set of paintings in total depicting the entire narrative. Life story paintings are also commonly depicted as murals in assembly halls or temples. (See Life Story Painting Sets).