Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c14.56
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c14.56
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The art of Gandhāra in stucco showing mainly male and female heads and Bodhisattva images is of striking beauty which has drawn praise from art historians as being admirable creation of true masters. They equal some of the most worthy products of Gupta art. This was a new school which was at its height during the 4-5th cent. It transmitted its legacy to the Gandhāra art in terracotta of which the influences spread to the creations of Buddha and other figures on the Stūpa of Mirpurkhas in Sind and of the beautiful terracotta heads from the ancient site of Shaḍashadvana (Mod. Harvan) in Kashmir (which are now preserved in the Karachi Museum and at the National Museum, New Delhi). Marshall opined that the premier school of Gandhāra in stone sculpture declined in the 4th cent. A.D. and a new school of clay modeller came into existence in the 5th and 6th cent. producing works of the highest merit.