Represents Kanishka's predecessor sitting on a lion-throne, wearing the short tunic and heavy felt boots of Kushana kings, Only the breadth of shoulders and fullness of form suggest a continuation of the Indian figure style, The image has a massiveness and crudity immediately suggestive of fragmentary Parthian portrait-statues, The carving of the ornamental border of the cloth draped over the throne reveals an almost exact copy of the designs of woven silks from Palmyra
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
By the 13th century, some regions of India showed a marked decline in their sculptural qualities so ...
Karikal (Tanjore), entre 1727 et 1758Deux grands lions superposés, aux têtes stylisés ( kirttimukha ...
The dignity of Kushan rulers as seen in their portraits on coins is confined in larger stone sculptu...
Among the most remarkable finds at Mathura are a number of royal effigies which are outstanding in t...
Sole examples of portrait sculpture known in ancient India, Forman influence? Inscription reads 'The...
Both the Wima and Kanishka sculptures are representative of the first royal portrait figures in Indi...
Ghandara was one of two major artistic regions under the Kushan dynasty, The second was Mathura, who...
In 1939, a rich archaeological find was made in Afghanistan when a hoard of luxury objects was excav...
A Kushan princely figure (Fig.3) excavated at the sanctuary of Surkh Kotal situated in northern Afgh...
Certain subordinate figures long used in minor decoration of stupas and shrines are given more prono...
A very prominent and well represented group of sculpture from Mathura is composed of reliefs devoted...
This is a tentative approach to the chronology of Mathura Buddhas in the Kushan Period (which covers...
Among the Brahmanical images in Mathuran art, those of the solar deities seem to show the greatest a...
After having shown the necessary informations and references at our diposal of all the dated Kushân ...
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
By the 13th century, some regions of India showed a marked decline in their sculptural qualities so ...
Karikal (Tanjore), entre 1727 et 1758Deux grands lions superposés, aux têtes stylisés ( kirttimukha ...
The dignity of Kushan rulers as seen in their portraits on coins is confined in larger stone sculptu...
Among the most remarkable finds at Mathura are a number of royal effigies which are outstanding in t...
Sole examples of portrait sculpture known in ancient India, Forman influence? Inscription reads 'The...
Both the Wima and Kanishka sculptures are representative of the first royal portrait figures in Indi...
Ghandara was one of two major artistic regions under the Kushan dynasty, The second was Mathura, who...
In 1939, a rich archaeological find was made in Afghanistan when a hoard of luxury objects was excav...
A Kushan princely figure (Fig.3) excavated at the sanctuary of Surkh Kotal situated in northern Afgh...
Certain subordinate figures long used in minor decoration of stupas and shrines are given more prono...
A very prominent and well represented group of sculpture from Mathura is composed of reliefs devoted...
This is a tentative approach to the chronology of Mathura Buddhas in the Kushan Period (which covers...
Among the Brahmanical images in Mathuran art, those of the solar deities seem to show the greatest a...
After having shown the necessary informations and references at our diposal of all the dated Kushân ...
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
By the 13th century, some regions of India showed a marked decline in their sculptural qualities so ...
Karikal (Tanjore), entre 1727 et 1758Deux grands lions superposés, aux têtes stylisés ( kirttimukha ...