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Name: The Great Stupa
Date: Third Century BCE- First Century CE
Style: Early Indian
Artist/Architect: N/A
Patron: Buddhist worshippers and Ashoka
Location: Sanchi, India
Technique: Solid earthen mounds containing relics of Buddha covered in carved stones with patron's names
Descriptive terms: Huge, round, rough, circambulating worshippers, toranas (gates) oriented at the cardinal directions, stone fence to keep out impurities |
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Name:Life and Death of Buddha Frieze
Date: Second Century CE
Style: Kushan Dynasty
Artist: unknown artisan
Patron: Buddhists
Location: Gandhara Pakistan
Technique: carved relief in sandstone
Descriptive terms: Follows the life of Buddha left to right in chronological order, influenced by roman reliefs, peaceful, shows opulence of ideal Buddha setting, illustrates quest for knowledge and the Eightfold path. |
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Name: Vishvanatha Temple
Date: 1000 CE
Style: Early Medieval
Artist: N/A
Patrons: Buddhists
Location: Khajuraho, India
Technique: Carved stone temple in the "Northern" style
Descriptive terms: beehive like towers, amalaka (ribbed cushionlike form), smaller tower roofs over the halls, ascending towers like the Himalayas of Shiva's home |
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Name: Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings
Date:1615-1618 CE
Style: Mughal Empire
Artist: Bichtir
Patron:Jahangir (successor of Akbar)
Location: Mughal Capital of India
Technique: Indian Miniature Painting (opaque watercolor on paper)
Descriptive Terms: Ornate background and border, allegorical with the hourglass throne, clothed cupids, radiant halo, Bichter's self portrait, King James I, Sufi and a Turkish Sultan, shows emperor's spirtitual power over worldly power |
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Name:Schwedagon Pagoda
Date: 14th century
Style: Modern Southeast Asia
Artist: N/A rebuilt several times
Patron: Buddhist worshippers of Myanmar
Location:Myanmar (Burma)
Technique:Sheathed gold pagoda
Descriptive Terms: Opulent, lavishly gold, 13,153 square feet of gold plates, 4,351 diamonds on top, very tall (344 ft), surrounded by smaller pagodas, contains two buddha hairs, |
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