COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_09254
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Standing Buddha
View description:
full view
Date:
320-485
Date type:
creation
Repository name:
Freer Gallery of Art
Repository name variant:
Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art
Repository location:
Washington, D.C.
Repository_inventory_ number:
F1994.17
Style_Period:
Gupta
Subject:
Buddha
Subject:
standing
Subject:
robes (main garments)
Culture:
Indian (South Asian)
Category:
Sculpture and Installations
Work_type:
sculpture (visual work)
Material_Technique:
red sikri sandstone
Measurement:
134.6 x 58.4 x 30.4 cm
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny
Note:
From the NMAA website: "From the Greco-Roman tradition of Gandhara, Gupta sculptors borrowed the monastic robe that covered both shoulders, transforming its folds into a network of strings; from their own earlier Mathura tradition they retained the sensuous, full-bodied form of the Buddha."
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Duplication rights - Walter Denny
Filename:
WBD_09254.JPG
