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Gupta art is the art of the Gupta Empire, which ruled most of northern India, with its peak between about 300 and 480 CE, surviving in much reduced form until c. 550. The Gupta period is generally regarded as a classic peak and golden age of North Indian art for all the major religious groups. [ 2 ]
Above all, it was the synthesis of elements that gave Gupta art its distinctive flavour. During this period, the Guptas were supportive of thriving Buddhist and Jain cultures as well, and for this reason, there is also a long history of non-Hindu Gupta period art. In particular, Gupta period Buddhist art was to be influential in most of East ...
Gupta art is the style of art, surviving almost entirely as sculpture, developed under the Gupta Empire, which ruled most of northern India, with its peak between about 300 and 480 CE, surviving in much reduced form until c. 550.
This category is for art from northern and central India made in the period of the Gupta Empire, c. 300-550 CE. This includes art made under neighbouring central India dynasties. This includes art made under neighbouring central India dynasties.
Like other early Gupta era Hindu temples, it includes a decorated entrance to the sanctum flanked by Ganga and Yamuna goddesses, and intricately carved sculptures. [2] [7] The temple's Ekamukha Linga, a mukhalinga or faced lingam, with a detailed head of Shiva, is a much studied example of Gupta art. The temple reliefs include those for ...
A standing Buddha, inscribed: "Gift of Abhayamira in 154" of the Gupta Era (474 CE) in the reign of Kumaragupta II. Gupta art. Sarnath Museum. [1] The Gupta era is a historical calendar era that begins from c. 318 –319 CE. It was used by the Gupta emperors, as well as
It is now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England. Over life-size, this is "the only remaining metal statue of any size" from Gupta art, out of what was at the time probably approximately as numerous a type as stone or stucco statues. [3] The metal Brahma from Mirpur-Khas is older, but about half the size.
With the demise of the Kushans in the 4th century CE, the Indian Gupta Empire prevailed, and Gupta art developed. The Gupta Empire incorporated vast portions of central, northern, and northwestern India, as far as Punjab and the Arabian Sea, continuing and expanding on the earlier artistic tradition of the Kushans and developing a unique Gupta ...