Portrait sculpture, Mathurā
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found: Work cat.: Sandstone head of a monk in Kushan Mathuran style, Uttar Pradesh, India, ca. 2nd-3rd century A.D., via University of Washington digital collections, International Collection, May 21, 2021.
found: Art & architecture thesaurus online, June 8, 2021(Mathura. SN Refers to the culture, particularly sculpture, of Mathura, a cosmopolitan city on the Jumna river, during the Kushan period of ancient India; Mathura seems to have been a second capital of the Kushan dynasty and it was one of the dynasty's two important artistic centers, the other being Gandhara. Buddhist Mathura sculpture includes Buddha portraits based on yaksha (male earth-spirit) models, as well as some of the earliest examples of entirely Indian Buddha figures. The many vivacious and frankly sexual yakshi figures (female earth-spirits) are also well-known examples of Mathuran sculpture.)
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2021-05-21: new
2021-08-19: revised
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