The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Kurt A. Behrendt.
The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Kurt A. Behrendt.
The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Kurt A. Behrendt.
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Publisher
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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NQ709.366/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 115 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Contents
Gandharan cultural history : an introduction -- Foreign styles and urban tastes -- Early Buddhism in Gandhara : reliquaries and narrative relief panels -- The emergence of devotional Buddha and bodhisattva sculptures -- Late Buddhist art in Greater Gandhara.
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Publisher
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2007.
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State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Summary
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art is fortunate to have in its collections a broad and artistically rich sampling of Gandharan art from almost all phases of the region's history, including a unique bronze statuette of the Buddha Shakyamuni from about the first to second century A.D. In surveying these works, this volume relies on the latest scholarshi...
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The art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Kurt A. Behrendt.
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Notes
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Exhibition catalog.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-109) and index.
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c2007.
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NQ709.366/1
Record Identifier
74VKz2O2MvKb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKz2O2MvKb
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ISBN
0300120273 (Yale University Press : pbk.)
9781588392244 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : pbk.)
1588392244 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : pbk.)
9780300120271 (Yale University Press : pbk.)
DDC
709.366
MMS ID
991023317449702626
