The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title:
The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author:
Behrendt, Kurt A., 1964- author.
ISBN:
9781588392244
9780300120271
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 115 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Contents:
Gandharan cultural history : an introduction -- Foreign styles and urban tastes -- Early Buddhism in Gandhara : reliquaries and narrative relief panels -- The emergence of devotional Buddha and bodhisattva sculptures -- Late Buddhist art in Greater Gandhara.
Abstract:
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art is fortunate to have in its collections a broad and artistically rich sampling of Gandharan art from almost all phases of the region's history, including a unique bronze statuette of the Buddha Shakyamuni from about the first to second century A.D. In surveying these works, this volume relies on the latest scholarship to refine our understanding of Gandhara's complex cultural history as well as its evolving artistic traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
Corporate Subject:
Added Corporate Author:
Holds: Copies: