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Buddhist art originated in the Indian subcontinent in the centuries following the life of the historical Gautama Buddha in the 6th to 5th century BCE, before evolving through its contact with other cultures and its diffusion through the rest of Asia and the world. Buddhist art traveled with believers as the dharma spread, adapted, and evolved ...
The art produced in Southeast Asia includes the art from eleven countries that form Southeast Asia. The cultural development of the area was historically dominated by Indian influence, though several cohesive traits exist before Indian influence. [1] The art is inspired by many countries.
Rock art in Asia (9 C, 26 P) S. Asian sculpture (32 C, 7 P) T. Textile arts of Asia (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Asian art" The following 21 pages are in this ...
Category: Arts in Asia by country. 18 languages. ... Asian art by country (42 C) Cinema of Asia by country (62 C) Arts festivals in Asia by country (23 C)
Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of ...
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With the rise of Turkic dynasties in Central Asia, Persian art started to evolve to adapt to the tastes of the new Turkic ruling class: in paintings, the composition of narrative scenes remains unchanged, but nomadic clothing, physical traits and power symbols (such as the bow and arrow) are now depicted.
South Asia has many different languages that have been spoken due to its size and how long people have been inhabiting it. This has caused the region to be the most linguistically diverse region in the planet, [ 80 ] and as well as having four language families ( Dravidian , Indo-European , Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman ), hundreds of ...