Greco-Buddhist art | Wikipedia audio article
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Greco-Buddhist art


00:01:30 1 Hellenistic art in southern Asia
00:03:41 2 Early Gandhara creations: stone palettes (2nd century BCE – 1st century CE)
00:04:26 3 Interaction
00:04:56 3.1 Early contributions of Gandharan artists to Buddhist art (2nd-1st century BC)
00:05:31 3.1.1 Sanchi
00:06:49 3.1.2 Bharhut
00:07:58 4 Characteristics of Greco-Buddhist art
00:08:09 4.1 Artistic model
00:08:51 4.2 Material
00:09:22 4.3 Stylistic evolution
00:09:55 4.4 Architecture
00:10:41 4.5 Buddha
00:12:21 4.5.1 Development
00:15:36 4.5.2 Artistic model
00:16:21 4.6 Gods and Bodhisattvas
00:17:30 4.7 Cupids
00:18:47 4.8 Devotees
00:19:41 4.9 Fantastic animals
00:20:43 5 Kushan contribution
00:21:20 6 Southern influences
00:21:29 6.1 Art of the Shunga
00:22:04 6.2 Art of Mathura
00:24:47 6.3 Arts of Western India
00:25:55 6.4 Art of the Gupta
00:26:39 7 Expansion in Central Asia
00:26:59 7.1 Bactria
00:28:52 7.2 Tarim Basin
00:29:30 8 Influences in Eastern Asia
00:30:14 8.1 China
00:31:32 8.2 Japan
00:33:44 9 Influences on South-East Asian art
00:34:23 10 Cultural significance
00:35:00 11 Museums
00:35:09 11.1 Major collections
00:36:11 11.2 Small collections
00:36:48 11.3 Private collections
00:37:01 12 See also



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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 1,000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, and the Islamic conquests of the 7th century AD. Greco-Buddhist art is characterized by the strong idealistic realism and sensuous description 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 (250–130 BC), located in today’s Afghanistan, from which Hellenistic culture radiated into the Indian subcontinent with the establishment of the Indo-Greek kingdom (180–10 BC). 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.