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Narrative Frieze

Narrative Frieze. The life and death of the Buddha, frieze from Gandhara , Pakistan, second century CE. Schist, 2’ 2 3/8” X 9’ 6 1/8”. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (a) birth at Lumbini , (b) enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, (c) first sermon at Sarnath , (d) death at Kushinagara.

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Narrative Frieze

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  1. Narrative Frieze

  2. The life and death of the Buddha, frieze from Gandhara, Pakistan, second century CE. Schist, 2’ 2 3/8” X 9’ 6 1/8”. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (a) birth at Lumbini, (b) enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, (c) first sermon at Sarnath, (d) death at Kushinagara.

  3. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, from Rome, Italy, ca. 359. Marble, 3’ 10 1/2” x 8’. MuseoStorico del Tesoro della Basilica di San Pietro, Rome. register - A device used in systems of spatial definition. In painting and sculpture, a register indicates the use of differing groundlines, self-contained bands in a vertical arrangement, to differentiate distance within an image.

  4. East torana of the Great Stupa at Sanchi

  5. Sanchiyakshi- carved on gateway of the Great Stupa, Early Andhar period 150-50 BCE

  6. Yakshi Holding a Fly Whisk, Didarganj, India Maurya period, 250 BCE

  7. Iconography - Buddha • Sanghati– the monk’s robe that the Buddha wears, a long length of cloth draped over the left shoulder and around the body. • Lakshana- Thethirty-two major distinguishing marks The Buddha is said to have. • Examples-golden-colored body, long arms that reached to his knees, the impression of a wheel (chakra) on the palms of his hand and the soles of his feet, and the urna-a tuft of white hair between his eyebrows, elongated earlobes and the top of his head is said to have a protuberance called an ushnisha-which in images often resembles a bun or topknot and symbolizes his enlightenment.

  8. The Gandhara School • Around 1st century regions of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North India came under the control of a nomadic people from Central Asia, the Kushans. • During this time Buddhism underwent a profound evolution – that resulted in the form known as Mahayana or Great Vehicle. • Swept through most of northern India and eastern Asia, probably inspired the first depictions of the Buddha himself in art.

  9. Augustus, Hellenistic Greek Standing Buddha, from Gandhara

  10. The Gandhara School • Typical images from this school portrays the Buddha as a superhuman figure, more powerful and heroic than an ordinary human. • The treatment of the sanghati is tight, riblike folds alternate with delicate creases, setting up a clear rhythmic pattern of heavy and shallow lines.

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