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The Art of South Asia
Monument List: South & Southeast Asia
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/22/2013

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Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist.

Great Bath.

Kiln-fired brick architecture.

Mohenjo-daro (in modern Pakistan).

Ca.2600–1900 BCE. Indus Civilization.

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist.

Female Figure (yakshi?).

Terracotta.

Mohenjo-daro (inmodern Pakistan).

Ca. 2600–1500 BCE. Indus Civilization.

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist.

Robed Male Figure

Inlaidsteatite (Inlaidsoapstone)

Mohenjo-daro (inmodern Pakistan)

Ca. 2000–1900 BCE. Indus Civilization.

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Nude Male Torso

Red sandstone

Harappa (in modern Pakistan)

Ca. 2000–1900 BCE. Indus Civilization

Term
[image]
Definition

Unknown Artist

Seal with Seated Figure

Baked steatite (baked soapstone)

Mohenjo-daro (in modern Pakistan)

Ca. 2300–1750 BCE. Indus Civilization

Term

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Definition

Patron: King Ashoka

Lion Capital

Polished sandstone

Sarnath (in modern India)

Ca. 250 BCE. Mauryan

Term

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Definition

 

Patron: King Ashoka and successors

Great Stupa

Stone architecture

Sanchi (in modern India)

3rd c.BCE to 1st c. CE. Mauryan and post-Mauryan

 

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Yakshi from the east torana

Sandstone

GreatStupa, Sanchi (in modern India)

Ca. Year One. Post-Mauryan

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Chaitya Hall

Carved bedrock

Karle (in modern India)

Ca. 50–100 CE. Post-Mauryan

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

The Life and Death of the Buddha (Narrative Sequence of the Life of the Buddha)

Schist.

Gandhara (in modern Pakistan)

2nd c. CE. Kushan (Gandhara style)

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Meditating Buddha

Schist

Gandhara (in modern Pakistan)

2nd c. CE. Kushan (Gandhara style)

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Buddha Seated on Lion Throne

Red sandstone

Mathura (in modern India)

2nd c. CE. Kushan (Mathura style)

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Seated Buddha Preaching

Tan sandstone

Sarnath (in modern India)

Ca.450–500. Gupta

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Standing Buddha

Bronze

Bihar (in modern India)

Ca. 550–650. Gupta

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Vakataka nobility

Chaitya Hall

Carved bedrock

Cave 19, Ajanta (in modern India)

Ca. 450–500. Gupta

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Vakataka nobility

Standing Buddha

Carved bedrock

Cave 19, Ajanta (in modern India)

Ca. 450–500. Gupta

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Vakataka nobility

Bodhisattva Padmapani

Wall painting
Cave 1, Ajanta (in modern India)

Ca. 450–500. Gupta.

Term

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Definition

 Unknown Artist

Patron: a local ruler

Vishnu as Varaha

Carved bedrock

Cave 5, Udayagiri (in modern India)

Dedicated in 401. Gupta

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Chalukya nobility

Shiva Temple

Carved bedrock

Cave 1, Badami (in modern India)

Ca .550–600. Gupta

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Chalukya nobility

Shiva Nataraja (Dancing Shiva)

Carved bedrock

Cave 1, Badami (in modern India)

Ca. 550–600. Gupta

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Kalachuri nobility

Shiva as Mahadeva

Carved bedrock

Cave 1, Elephanta (in modern India)

Ca. 550–575. Gupta

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Vishnu Temple

Stone architecture

Deogarh (in modern India)

Ca. 500–550. Gupta

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Vishnu Asleep on the Serpent Ananta.

Stone.

Vishnu Temple, Deogarh (in modern India)

Ca. 500–550. Gupta

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Pallavanobility

Dharmaraja ratha

Carved bedrock

Mamallapuram (in modern India)

Ca. 650–700. Early Medieval South Asian

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon Manisha

Carved bedrock

Mahishasuramardini Temple, Mamallapuram ( in modern India)

7th c. CE. Early Medieval South Asian

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Chola nobility

Rajarajeshvara Temple

Stone architecture (Southern temple type)

Thanjavur ( in modern India)

Ca. 1010. Early Medieval South Asian

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Chandellanobility

Vishvanatha Temple

Stone architecture (Northern temple type)

Khajuraho (in modern India)

Ca. 1000. Early Medieval South Asian

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Patron: Chandella nobility

Mithuna Reliefs

Stone.

Vishvanatha Temple ,Khajuraho (in modern India)

Ca. 1000. Early Medieval South Asian

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

Shiva Nataraja (Dancing Shiva)

Bronze.

Tamil Nadu.

Ca. 1000. Early Medieval South Asian

Term

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Definition

Patron: Qutbal Din Aybak

Qutb Minar

Stone and brick architecture

Delhi (in modern India).

1311. Ghorid (Pre-Mughal Islamic)

Term
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Definition

Basawan and Chatar Muni

“Akbar and the Elephant Hawai,” from Abul Fazl’s

Akbarnama (History of Akbar)

Watercolor on paper

Delhi (in modern India)

Ca. 1590. Mughal

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Definition

Bichitr

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings

Watercolor on paper

Delhi (in modern India)

Ca. 1615–1618. Mughal

Term
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Definition

Sahifa Banu.

Shah Tahmasp Meditating

Watercolor on paper

Delhi (in modern India)

Ca.1600–1650. Mughal

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Definition

Patron: Shah Jahan

Taj Mahal (Mausoleum of Mumtaz Mahal)

Architecture

Agra (in modern India)

1632–1647. Mughal

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion

Watercolor on paper

Rajasthan (in modern India)

Ca. 1760. Rajput (bonus: Pahari School)

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

  Borobudur

  Stone architecture

  Borobudur, Java (in modern Indonesia)

  Ca.  800.  Javanese.

 

Term

 

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Definition

 

Unknown Artist

  Parinirvana

  (Death of the Buddha)

  Carved bedrock

  Gal Vihara,  Sri  Lanka.

  11th–12th  c.  Sri Lankan.

 

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

  Harihara

  Stone

  Praset Andet (in modern Cambodia)

  Ca. 600– 650.  Khmer.

 

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

  Vishnu Lying on the Cosmic Ocean

  Inlaid bronze

  Mebon Temple, Angkor (in modern Cambodia)

  11th c.

  Khmer.

Term

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Definition

Patron: King Suryavarman II

  Angkor Wat

  Stone architecture

  Angkor (in modern Cambodia)

  1113–1150.  Khmer

 

Term

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Definition

Patron: King Suryavarman II

  King Suryavarman II Holding Court

  Stone

  Angkor Wat, Angkor (in modern Cambodia)

  1113–1150.  Khmer.

 

Term

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Definition

Patron: King Jayavarman VII

  Bayon  Temple

   Angkor Thom, Angkor  (in modern  Cambodia)

   1181–1219.  Khmer.

Term
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Definition

Unknown Artist

  Walking Buddha

  Bronze

  Sukhothai (in modern Thailand)

  14th c.  Thai.

  

Term

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Definition

Unknown Artist

  Emerald Buddha

   Green Jasper

  Emerald Temple Bangkok  (in modern  Thailand)

  15th  c.

   Thai.

 

Term

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Unknown Artist

  Schwedagon Pagoda

  Architecture with  gilding  and  jewels

  Rangoon (Yangoon)  (in modern Myanmar/Burma).

  14th  c.  and later.  Burmese.

 

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