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The Golden Age of Buddhist Art: Gupta Period -- Sculpture
| Title: | The Golden Age of Buddhist Art: Gupta Period -- Sculpture | | Author: | Rowland, Benjamin | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 9 Issue no. 2; March 1956, p. 79-85 | | Abstract: | Gupta sculpture developed mainly out of the traditions of the Indian school of Mathura and Greco-Roman art of the north-west frontier. This process of development is traced with a typical example from Mathura depicting the Buddha, and points of similarity and departure from Gandhara Buddhas are noted. The similarity of artistic styles in production for various religions is evident in the Vishnu fragment from Mathura and the Bodhisattva torso in the Mathura Museum. Sarnath, a flourishing centre of Gupta-period Buddhist sculpture which influenced Buddhist art in Siam, Cambodia, and Borobudur (Java), has yielded standing Buddhas, a high relief statue of the Buddha preaching his first sermon, and steles with scenes of the Buddha's life. The metal sculptures of the Gupta period include the colossal copper image of the Buddha from Sultanganj (in the Birmingham Museum), several bronze statuettes of the Buddha and Buddhist divinities from Gandhara and Dhanesar Khera. The Gupta period also saw the carving of Jaina, Buddhist, and Hindu images and reliefs all over India. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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