The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c15.26
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c15.26
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c15.26
Another noteworthy feature of this carving is the pretty but doll-like and rather fatuous expression on the ladies' faces. It is a feature to which I have already drawn attention in several earlier reliefs, notably, figs. 87, 88, 92 and 93, and a feature to which we shall frequently have to recur, as it assumes increasingly greater importance in the later phases of the School.