History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE

Sonya Rhie Quintanilla (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2007
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-15537-4 (ISBN)

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This volume provides the first comprehensive chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura. It includes new evidence for the reattribution of objects, emergence of the anthropomorphic Buddha image, and predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism.

This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism, and the proliferation of cults of nature divinities. This book provides a wealth of reference material useful for historians of early Indian art, religion, and epigraphy.
The book is illustrated with over three hundred photographs, and it includes epigraphic appendices with complete transcriptions and updated translations.

Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, Ph.D. (1999) in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, is Curator of Asian Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. She has published on aspects of early Indian sculpture and Sultanate manuscript painting, including "Ayagapatas: Characteristics, Symbolism, and Chronology (Artibus Asiae, LV, 2000, pp. 79-137)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.3.2007
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology ; 25
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 290 mm
Gewicht	1922 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	90-04-15537-6 / 9004155376
ISBN-13	978-90-04-15537-4 / 9789004155374
Zustand	Neuware