C. Sivaramamurti

Calambur Sivaramamurti
Calambur Sivaramamurti
Occupation(s)	Art historian, art critic, epigraphist, philologist, museologist, archaeologist, numismatist, Sanskrit scholar, literary critic
Awards	Padma Shri ; Padma Bhushan; Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society; Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow; Vicitracitta
Academic work
Institutions	Madras Museum ; Archaeological Survey of India ; National Museum of India; International Committee of Museums;
Notable works	L'Art en Inde; Nataraja in Art, Thought, and Literature; Amaravati Sculptures In The Madras Government Museum; South Indian Paintings; South Indian Bronzes; Citrasūtra of the ; Sanskrit literature and art: mirrors of Indian culture;

Vicitracitta Calambur Sivaramamurti FRAS (1909–1983) was an Indian museologist, art historian and epigraphist who is primarily known for his work as curator in the Government Museum, Chennai. and Sanskrit scholar. His entire life has been devoted to the study and exposition of various aspects of Indian art. Apart from authoring several monographs, guide books on Indian art, he also wrote a seminal work on South Indian epigraphy.

He received the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, and was selected as the inaugural and prototype Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow. He was additionally an honorary Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Shankaracharya Chandrashekarendra Saraswati created him Vicitracitta as a personal honour. He was a member of the Calamur family.

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