Kushan art Kushan art, the art of the Kushan Empire in northern India, flourished between the 1st and the 4th century CE. It blended the traditions of...

The Kushan Empire (c. 30–c. 375 AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. It spread to encompass...

Kushan or Kushana may refer to: Kushan Empire, an Indian empire Kushan (clan), an Indian clan Kushan art, the art of the Kushan Empire Kushan coinage...

in the Indo-Greek Kingdoms. However, Greco-Buddhist art truly flowered and spread under the Kushan Empire, when the first surviving devotional images of...

sculpture and especially the paintings at Ajanta. Gupta art was preceded by Kushan art, the art of the Kushan Empire in northern India, which flourished between...

art Architecture of India Indo-Greek art Gupta art Mauryan art Kushan art Hoysala architecture Vijayanagara architecture Greco-Buddhist art Chola art...

regarded as an astral deity, and in Sogdian art was depicted representations of the sun and the moon. Kushan emperors additionally associated her with royal...

India Rasa (art) Other Indian Art and Architecture forms Architecture of India Indo-Greek art Art of Mathura Gupta art Mauryan art Kushan art Sundari painting...

In the coinage of the North Indian and Central Asian Kushan Empire (approximately 30–375 CE), the main coins issued were gold, weighing 7.9 grams, and...

symbols. Like other Gandharan, Greco-Buddhist art, and Kushan art, the statue shows influence from Ancient Greek art depicting Buddhist themes. The sculpture...

major survivals of Buddhist art begin in the period after the Mauryans, within North India Kushan art, the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara and finally the...

such as the Kushan prince of Khalchayan (a practice well attested in nomadic Central Asia). Kushan art at Khalchayan (1st century BC) The art of Khalchayan...

(now British Museum) is a gold Buddhist casket for relics, an example of Kushan art, as are the Begram ivories, mostly secular survivals from a palace storeroom...

art in northwestern India. The Scythians in India were ultimately replaced by the Kushan Empire and the Gupta Empire, whose art form appear in Kushan...

ISBN 9788170171478. Carter, Martha L. (1968). "Dionysiac Aspects of Kushān Art". Ars Orientalis. 7: 121–146, Fig. 15. ISSN 0571-1371. JSTOR 4629244....

unique Gandharan style of art, the region attained its height from the 1st century to the 5th century CE under the Kushan Empire which had their capital...

captured the provinces of Sogdia, Bactria and Gandhara from the declining Kushan Empire following a series of wars in 225 CE. The local Sasanian governors...

Bagram (Begram), Afghanistan. They are rare and important exemplars of Kushan art of the 1st or 2nd centuries CE, attesting to the cosmopolitan tastes and...

made in gilded copper, and dated to the first year of the reign of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, in 127 CE. It is now in the Peshawar Museum in the historic...

Bagram (Begram), Afghanistan. They are rare and important exemplars of Kushan art of the 1st or 2nd centuries CE, attesting to the cosmopolitan tastes and...

inscription in his name. This statue is in all probability a product of the art of Mathura, which was then transported to the Ganges region. Bala Bodhisattva...

reliefs on a railing, dating to the 2nd century CE during the time of the Kushan Empire. The reliefs were found in the Bhuteshwar mound, around the remains...

Brahmi: Kā-ṇi-ṣka), Kanishka or Kanishka the Great was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty, under whose reign (c. 127–150 CE) the empire reached its zenith...

Kushan art is highlighted by the appearance of extensive Buddhist arts in the form of Mathuras, Gandharan and Amaravathi schools of art. Mathura art flourished...

The Airtam Frieze is a sculpture in stone of women, musicians from Kushan Bactria dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD, which was excavated from the ruins...

final withdrawal in 150 AD. The Kushan Empire expanded into the Tarim during the 2nd century AD, bringing Buddhism, Kushan art, Sanskrit as a liturgical language...

and the Seleucids. In Kushan art he was instead depicted as a Poseidon-like figure holding a staff and a fish. In Sogdian art he might have been depicted...

contemporaneously in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara and in the art of Mathura in the early Kushan period. The Kushans adopted the anthropomorphic image...

established in the late 2nd century CE, as it contained six gold coins of the Kushan king Vima Kadphises ruled c. 113-127 CE, the father of Kanishka I, and two...

Temple Caves. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 2,000 years. The first caves were dug out in 366 CE...