The Art and Architecture of the Indian SubcontinentYale University Press, 1 gen 1994 - 601 pagine Thirty years' research and first-hand knowledge of the area have enabled the author to trace the cultural contacts which have contributed to the rich mosaic of sculpture, temples, mosques, and painting that have gone towards the creation of one of the great civilizations of the world. |
Sommario
Preface | 11 |
Guide to Pronunciation II | 11 |
Maps | 12 |
EARLY INDIAN ART I Early Monuments and Sculpture | 15 |
Early RockCut Architecture | 43 |
Mathurā | 59 |
The Art of Gandhāra | 71 |
THE GUPTA PERIOD 5 Introduction | 87 |
SOUTH INDIA 19 Introduction | 269 |
The Pallavas | 271 |
The Early Cola Period | 292 |
Kerala | 342 |
PAINTING 25 Mural Painting and the Beginnings of Miniature Painting | 355 |
Mughal Painting | 372 |
Painting in Rājasthān Mālwā and Central India | 384 |
Deccani Painting | 400 |
Mathura | 101 |
Sārnāth Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar | 105 |
Temples and Sculpture | 111 |
The Later or Mahāyāna Caves at Ajanta | 118 |
THE POSTGUPTA PERIOD IO Later RockCut Temples | 123 |
Western India and Madhya Pradesh | 136 |
Orissa | 158 |
The Deccan MeetingPlace of North and South | 166 |
Kashmir | 189 |
Eastern India and Bangladesh | 199 |
THE LATER HINDU PERIOD | 218 |
Western India Mālwā and Madhya Pradesh | 219 |
Orissa | 245 |
The Deccan | 254 |
Pahārī Painting | 407 |
INDOISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE 30 The Delhi Sultanate | 421 |
The Provincial Styles | 428 |
The Deccan | 433 |
The Mughal Period | 437 |
SRI LANKA 34 Buddhism Preserved | 445 |
NEPAL | 466 |
A National Syncretism | 467 |
Notes | 489 |
| 537 | |
| 563 | |
List of Illustrations | 567 |
| 577 | |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
Aihole Andhra Anuradhapura appear architecture Barrett base Bodhisattvas bronzes Buddha Buddhist buildings Calukya carved caves central century B.C. Chapter cornice Deccan decorated Delhi deul Dhaky Dravida earlier earliest Early Cola Early Western eighth century elements Ellora entrance façade fifth century figures Gandhara gavākṣas gopura Gouache on paper ground Gupta Harle Hindu iconography illustrated images Indian inscription Jain K. R. Srinivasan kapota Kramrisch Krsna late later linga Madhya Pradesh Mahāyāna Mamallapuram mandapa Mathura monuments motifs mouldings Mughal Mughal painting Museum photo Nepal niches Orissa painting Pāla palace Pallava Pārvatī period pilasters pillars plate post-Gupta Pradesh probably red sandstone relief rock-cut roof sanctum sculpture seated Buddha Second century seventh century Shah shrines side sikhara Śiva South India standing stone storeys stūpa style stylistic survived Surya temple terracotta tion tradition ture tury usually vihāra Vijayanagara vimāna Visnu walls western India yakṣa