The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18525-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

This is a study that focuses on the art and architecture of a group of Buddhist rock-cut monuments excavated on the western edge of the Deccan Plateau in India. It analyses the various cultural, historical and religious phenomena that shaped the caves at Aurangabad through the first seven centuries of the Common Era and it comments on the Buddhist tradition of the western Deccan as a whole. The result is a comprehensive work that does not address exclusively iconography and chronology, but looks beyond Aurangabad to the larger artistic and religious traditions of the Indian Subcontinent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brancaccio, Pia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Pia Brancaccio, Ph.D. (1995) in Indian Art and Archaeology, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She has published extensively on Buddhist art and multicultural systems in ancient South Asia, with a special focus on Gandhara and the western regions of the Deccan plateau, including a book co-edited with Kurt Behrendt entitled Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art and Text (UBC Press, 2006).