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Archæological Survey of India. A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum Part II - The Græco-Buddhist School of Gandhāra

1937

A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum The Græco-Buddhist School of GandhāraFrontispiece The Buddha preachingARCHIEOLOCICAL SURVEY OF INDIA A GUIDE TO THE SCULPTURES IN THE INDIAN MUSEUM PART II The Grieco-Buddhist School of Gandhira BY N. G. MAJUMDAR M. A. F.R.A.S. [...] In the substitution of the Corinthian for the Ionic end in the universal use of the former we see a process that is in evidence also in Roman architecture as in the temple of Apollo at Pompeii restored in the first century A. D. and in the temples of the age of Augustus generally. [...] 60.10 A GUIDE TO THE SCULPTURES SOURCES OF INFLUENCE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF GANDIIÄRA RELIEFS that it was affiliated more to the Gmeco-Romani than to the earlier Hellenistic phase which is illustrated almost solely by the finer class of the Indo-Greek coins The classical influences that largely moulded the Buddhist art of Gandhara in its later phases came from the eastern borders of the Roman Empire [...] The treatment of shadow in the reliefs of the Gandhara School is particularly reminiscent of the Grwco-Roman for instance the reliefs on the Arch of Titus (about 80 A. D.).' The gateway of the city disposed of sidways as appearing on this Arch has its exact analogy in Gandhara for instance in our relief No. [...] It should be noted that the Bodhisattvas never wear the peculiar shoes of the Kushan type as represented in the well-known statue of Kanishka and on the coins of Kanishka and Vasudeva although the dress and jewellery of the images are presumably copied from those of contemporary local princes.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
160
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147340
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v N.G. Majumdar view
Introductory
1-28 N.G. Majumdar view
I. The Jātakas
29-36 N.G. Majumdar view
II. Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
37-75 N.G. Majumdar view
III. The Buddhas
76-86 N.G. Majumdar view
IV. The Bodhisattvas
87-97 N.G. Majumdar view
V. Hāritī and Pāñchika
98-101 N.G. Majumdar view
VI. Miscellaneous
102-117 N.G. Majumdar view
Short Bibliography
118-118 N.G. Majumdar view
Numerical Index
119-132 N.G. Majumdar view
Index
133-137 N.G. Majumdar view
List of Plates
i-xiv N.G. Majumdar view
Map
i-i N.G. Majumdar view

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