The Age of the Imperial Guptas c9.35

c9.35

In the treatment of the human figure, Gupta artists all over India, are characterised by their uncommon devotion to real naturalism and symmetry and total rejection of all mannerisms introduced into the Mathurā school of the Kuṣāṇa period. Such mannerisms are noticeable in very early and late Mathurā-Kuṣāṇa products and a certain class of them are totally devoid of all sorts of artistic convention. Such are the splendid torsos and heads recovered by Führer from different mounds of Mathurā towards the close of the last century.¹