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A Gandharan Bronze Buddha Statuette: Its Place in the Evolution of the Buddha image in Gandhara
| Title: | A Gandharan Bronze Buddha Statuette: Its Place in the Evolution of the Buddha image in Gandhara | | Author: | Carter, Martha L. | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 39 Issue no. 4, p. 21-38 | | Abstract: | An unusual early Buddha image has been acquired by the M. Nitta Collection of Tokyo. This diminutive bronze Buddha shows itself as an anomaly in the evolution of the Buddha image in Gandhara.This writer believes it to be a work of singular importance, since it offers insight into the process within which the Gandharan Buddha image evolved. she suggests that it was during the middle decades of the 1st century that Roman artistic influence first reached Gandhara to become a part of the complex interweaving factors that produced the fascinatingly hybrid style of Gandharan Buddhist sculpture of the Kushan era. Whether the inspiration for the Nitta Buddha statuette was actually a portrait of the youthful Nero or not is not known, but the dates of his reign and the intensity of commercial activity between Rome and India at the time, make this not unlikely. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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