Reading Hellenistic Art ePub Online
Hellenistic Art
Author:Books, LLC,General Books LLC
Published on 2010-05 by Books LLC, Wiki Series
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Fayum mummy portraits, Amazonomachy, Greco-Buddhist art, Hellenistic Glass, The Beauty of Durr s, Tomb of Aline, Alexander Mosaic, Gonzaga Cameo, Nile mosaic of Palestrina, Derveni krater, Stone palette, Cup of the Ptolemies, Neo-Attic, Proclus. Excerpt: Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, and the Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE. Greco-Buddhist art is characterized by the strong idealistic realism and sensuous description and of Hellenistic art and the first representations of the Buddha in human form, which have helped define the artistic (and particularly, sculptural) canon for Buddhist art throughout the Asian continent up to the present. It is also a strong example of cultural syncretism between eastern and western traditions. The origins of Greco-Buddhist art are to be found in the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250 BCE- 130 BCE), located in today's Afghanistan, from which Hellenistic culture radiated into the Indian subcontinent with the establishment of the Indo-Greek kingdom (180 BCE-10 BCE). Under the Indo-Greeks and then the Kushans, the interaction of Greek and Buddhist culture flourished in the area of Gandhara, in today's northern Pakistan, before spreading further into India, influencing the art of Mathura, and then the Hindu art of the Gupta empire, which was to extend to the rest of South-East Asia. The influence of Greco-Buddhist art also spread northward towards Central Asia, strongly affecting the art of the Tarim Basin, and ultimately the arts of China, Korea, and Japan. Silver coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I (200-180 BCE) wea...- Author -Books, LLC,General Books LLC
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- Published 2010-05 by Books LLC, Wiki Series
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- ISBN10 1156840597
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