Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
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Category : Amaravati (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The Amaravati Mode of Sculpture
Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amaravati (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The Amaravati mode of sculpture
Author: Calambur SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
The Amaravati Mode of Sculpture
Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Sculptures and Antiquities in the Archaeological Museum, Amarāvatī
Author: Archaeological Museum (Amrāvati, India)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Amaravati sculptures are famous throughout the world for their special features and they form a distinct school of art called Amaravati school of art. Though Amaravati art pieces take the pride of place in India's best museums, the sculptures in the site museum at Amaravati itself have not been assigned enough significance. This volume lists and analyses the museum antiquities typologically and chronologically. The effort includes all the museum antiquities, including many objects of seemingly minor importance, which are described in detail. Their types and features, provenance, probable period, measurements and accession number, references to them and details of inscriptions relating to them are provided. The catalogue of objects features twenty main headings including the pillars, slabs, pilasters, beads, ceramics and copper plate grants. There are photo illustrations of a large number of antiquities that form the museum collection which have enormous archaeological epigraphic and iconographic merit. The book will interest historians, archaeologists and general readers keen on knowing about Indian culture and art.
Amaravati
Author: Akira ShimadaPublisher: British Museum Research Publication
ISBN: 9780861592074
Category : Amaravati (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and an important shrine was built at Amaravati, probably to house relics of the Buddha brought from the north. Amaravati was enlarged and embellished over several centuries from about 200 BCE, transforming it into what ancient inscriptions describe as a mahācetiya or 'great shrine'. Although one of the most important Buddhist monuments in India, Amaravati declined from the 14th century. It was re-discovered and then excavated during the 19th century. In 1880 more than 120 of the Amaravati sculptures entered the collection of the British Museum, while other pieces found their way to museums in India, Europe and America. The papers in this book emerged from a conference at the British Museum held in September 2014 that brought together leading specialists from around the world to address aspects of Amaravati and its sculpture. Subjects covered in this volume include the rediscovery of the site at the end of the 18th century as well as its recreation and reinterpretation in the 21st century. The art of Amaravati is also placed in the context of other sites and remains from the Andhra region which, despite its importance, has been relatively neglected in the study of the religious and visual cultures of South Asia." -- Publisher's website
Amaravati Sculptures in the Madras Government Museum
Author: C. SivaramamurtiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amaravati (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Amaravati Sculptures in the Madras Government Museum
Author: C. SivaramamurtiAmaravati Sculpture
Author: Benjamin RowlandSculptures from Amaravati in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of EthnographyPublisher:
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Category : Amaravati (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Art of Ancient India
Author: Susan L. HuntingtonPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120836170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author's aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: –Not since Coomaraswamyês History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness.” Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art _ from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan north to the tropical south, and from the earliest extant writing through the most modern scholarship on the subject. This dynamic survey-generously complemented with 775 illustrations, including 48 in full color and numerous architectural ground plans, and detailed maps and fine drawings, and further enhanced by its guide to Sanskrit, copious notes, extensive bibliography, and glossary of South Asian art terms-is the most comprehensive and most fully illustrated study of South Asian art available. The works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all encompassing view of the art. An outstanding portrayal of ancient Indiaês highest intellectual and technical achievements, this volume is written for many audiences: scholars, for whom it provides an up-to-date background against which to examine their own areas of study; teachers and students of college level, for whom it supplies a complete summary of and a resource for their own deeper investigations into Indic art; and curious readers, for whom it gives a broad-based introduction to this fascinating area of world art.