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Buddha, Ghandaran school, 2nd-3rd Centuries A.D.

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dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Pakistan)
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-24T05:48:13Z
dc.date.available2019-05-24T05:48:13Z
dc.date.createdcirca 1970s
dc.identifierANUA 682-609
dc.identifier.otherIA-656
dc.identifier.otherIA-656
dc.identifier.other22
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/163377
dc.descriptionThe seated Buddhas, with heavy drapery in thick folds covering both shoulders, and with the hands in the dhyana-mudra, form a distinctive type of Ghandaran art, They are stylistically allied to the standing Buddha figures, also wearing thick-folded drapery, and in treatment the Ghandaran figures try to copy the beautiful Mathuran Buddhas, However, we must admit that these Buddhas of Ghandara are more stiff and lacking the same spiritual quality of the Mathuran works, Where Ghandaan styles are really very naturalistic in their treatment of the human form, they are also less profound in many cases (exceptions are the Fasting Buddhas), Occasionally in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D., the system of proportions breaks down as it does in this example, and the images appear squat, -- London, british Museum,
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediummounted transparency
dc.format.mediumb&w
dc.format.mediumsepia
dc.format.mimetypeimage/tiff
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBasham Collection
dc.subjectGandhara Sculpture
dc.subjectBuddha images: seated
dc.subjectstone sculpture
dc.subjectmounted transparency set
dc.titleBuddha, Ghandaran school, 2nd-3rd Centuries A.D.
dc.typeImage
dc.date.updated2019-05-24T05:48:13Z
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
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