Artist: n/a Title: The Indian Subcontinent Medium : n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Seal impressions: A., D. horned animal; B. buffalo; C. sacrificial rite to a goddess (?); E. yogi; F. three-headed animal Medium: Seals: steatite Size: each approx. 1¼ X 1¼" (3.2 X 3.2 cm) Date: c. 2500–1500 BCE Source/Museum: Indus Valley civilization
Artist: n/a Title: Large water tank, possibly a public or ritual bathing area Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 2600–1900 BCE Source/Museum: Mohenjo-Daro. Indus Valley civilization, Harappan
Artist: n/a Title: Torso of a “priest-king” Medium: Steatite Size: height 6 ⅞ " (17.5 cm) Date: c. 2000–1900 BCE Source/Museum: Mohenjo-Daro. Indus Valley civilization, / National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi
Artist: n/a Title: Torso Medium: Red sandstone Size: height 3 ¾" (9.5 cm) Date: c. 2000 BCE Source/Museum: Harappa. Indus Valley civilization, / National Museum, New Delhi
Artist: n/a Title: Yakshi Holding a Fly-Whisk Medium: Polished sandstone Size: height 5'4¼" (1.63 m) Date: Probably Maurya period, c. 250 BCE Source/Museum: Didarganj, Patna, Bihar, India. / Patna Museum, Patna
Artist: n/a Title: Lion Capital Medium: Polished sandstone Size: height 7' (2.13 m) Date: Maurya period, c. 250 BCE Source/Museum: Ashokan pillar at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India. / Archaeological Museum, Sarnath
Artist: n/a Title: Great Stupa, Sanchi Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Founded 3rd century BCE, enlarged c. 150–50 BCE Source/Museum: Madhya Pradesh, India
Artist: n/a Title: Elements of Architecture: Stupa and Temples Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Stupa, northern-style temple, southern-style temple
Artist: n/a Title: East torana of the Great Stupa at Sanchi Medium: Stone Size: height 35' (10.66 m) Date: Early Andhra period, mid-1st century BCE Source/Museum: n/a
Buddha leaving home, represented by horse, footprints
Artist: n/a Title: Yakshi b racket figure Medium: Stone Size: height approx. 60" (152.4 cm) Date: n/a Source/Museum: On the east torana of the Great Stupa at Sanchi
Artist: n/a Title: Section of the c haitya hall at Karla. Maharashtra, India. Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 1st Century BCE to 1st Century CE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Chaitya hall at Karla Medium : n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Standing Buddha Medium: Schist Size: height 7'6" (2.28 m) Date: c. 2nd–3rd century CE Source/Museum: Gandhara, Pakistan. / Lahore Museum, Lahore
Artist: n/a Title: Buddha and Attendants Medium: Red sandstone Size: height 27¼" (69.2 cm) Date: Kushan period, c. late 1st–early 2nd century CE Source/Museum: Katra Keshavdev, Mathura, Madhya Pradesh, India. / Government Museum, Mathura
Artist: n/a Title: Siddhartha in the Palace Medium: Limestone Size: n/a Date: Later Andhra period, c. 3rd century CE Source/Museum: Detail of a relief from Nagarjunakonda, andhra Pradesh, India. / National Museum, New Delhi
Artist: n/a Title: Standing Buddha, Gupta Period Medium: Chunar sandstone Size: height 6' 4" (1.93 m) Date: Gupta period, 474 CE Source/Museum: Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India. / Archaeological Museum, Sarnath
Artist: n/a Title: Bodhisattva Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: n/a Date: Gupta period, c. 475 CE Source/Museum: In Cave I, Ajanta, Maharashtra, India
Artist: n/a Title: Vishnu Temple at Deogarh Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Post-Gupta period, c. 530 CE Source/Museum: Uttar Pradesh, India
Artist: n/a Title: Elements of Architecture: Stupa and Temples Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Stupa, northern-style temple, southern-style temple
Artist: n/a Title: Doorway of the Vishnu Temple at Deogarh Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Doorway of the Vishnu Temple at Deogarh Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
“ Mithuna” figures
“ Mathura” figures
Artist: n/a Title: Vishnu Narayana on the Cosmic Waters Medium: Stone Size: n/a Date: c. 530 CE Source/Museum: Relief panel in the Vishnu Temple at Deogarh
Kumbhakarna is certainly one of the most interesting characters in the Ramayana epic. Whereas most characters perfectly embody either virtue or vice, Kumbhakarna is a more complex figure. Able to realize the mistakes and wrong-doings of Ravana, even trying to intervene and moderate at certain times, he is unable to openly oppose him, feeling bound by his warrior ethics. Fighting on what he knows is the wrong side, he is ultimately killed in combat. When he has finally been defeated, even his adversaries, Rama and his companions, pray for him in order to release his soul to heaven.
Artist: n/a Title: Cave-Temple of Shiva at Elephanta Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Post-Gupta period, mid-6th century CE Source/Museum: View along the east-west axis to the li ngam shrine. Maharashtra, India
Lingam Shrine
Artist: n/a Title: Eternal Shiva Medium: Rock-cut relief Size: height approx. 11' (3.4 m) Date: Mid-6th century CE Source/Museum: In the Cave-Temple of Shiva at Elephanta
Artist: n/a Title: Shiva Nataraja Medium: Bronze Size: 32" (81.25 cm) Date: Chola dynasty, 12th century CE Source/Museum: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. / National Museum of India, New Delhi
Artist: n/a Title: Kandariya Mahadeva temple, Khajuraho Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Chandella dynasty, c. 1000 CE Source/Museum: Madhya Pradesh, India
Artist: n/a Title: Rajarajeshvara Temple to Shiva, Thanjavur Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Chola dynasty, 1003–10 CE Source/Museum: Tamil Nadu, India
Artist: n/a Title: Rajaraja I and His Teacher Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: n/a Date: Chola dynasty, c. 1010 CE Source/Museum: In the Rajarajeshvara Temple to Shiva
Artist: n/a Title: Buddha Maitreya Medium: Copper alloy with inlaid black glass eyes Size: 38" (96.5 cm) Date: 8th century Source/Museum: Buriram Province, Thailand, / Asia Society, New York. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.063
Artist: n/a Title: Buddha Shakyamuni Medium: n/a Size: Sandstone Date: Mon Dvaravati period, 9th century Source/Museum: Thailand. / Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles
Wat Pho, Bangkok
Artist: n/a Title: Borobudur Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 800 CE Source/Museum: Central Java, Indonesia
Artist: n/a Title: Plan of Borobudur Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Courtly Attendants Medium: Detail of a narrative relief sculpture Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Borobudur
Artist: n/a Title: Parinirvana of the Buddha Medium: Stone Size: n/a Date: 11th–12th century Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Art and Its Context: Chinese Characters Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Chinese characters: Ancient, Modern, ideographs
Confucianism, Daoism
Artist: n/a Title: Set of sixty-five bells Medium: Bronze, with bronze and timber frame Size: frame height 9' (2.74 m), length 25' (7.62 m) Date: Zhou dynasty, 433 BCE Source/Museum: Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Suixian, Hubei. / Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan
Artist: n/a Title: Soldiers Medium: Earthenware Size: life-size Date: Qin dynasty, c. 210 BCE Source/Museum: From the mausoleum of Emperor Shihuangdi, Lintong, Shaanxi
