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Angels in art. --- Angels --- Angels (Buddhism) in art

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"The ancient Buddhist art of Gandhāra was rediscovered from the 1830s and 1840s onwards in what would become the North-West Frontier of British India. By the end of the century an abundance of sculptures had been accumulated by European soldiers and officials, which constituted the foundations for a new field of scholarship and internationally celebrated museum collections. Both then and since, the understanding of Gandhāran art has been impeded by gaps in documentation, haphazard excavation, forgery, and smuggling of antiquities. Consequently, the study of Gandhāran archaeology often involves the evaluation and piecing together of fragmentary clues. In more subtle ways, however, the modern view of Gandhāran art has been shaped by the significance accorded to it by different observers over the past century and a half. Conceived in the imperial context of the late nineteenth century as 'Graeco-Buddhist' art - a hybrid of Asian religion and Mediterranean artistic form - Gandhāran art has been invested with various meanings since then, both in and beyond the academic sphere. Its puzzling links to the classical world of Greece and Rome have been explained from different perspectives, informed both by evolving perceptions of the evidence and by modern circumstances. From the archaeologists and smugglers of the Raj to the museums of post-partition Pakistan and India, from coin-forgers and contraband to modern Buddhism and contemporary art, this fourth volume of the Classical Art Research Centre's Gandhāra Connections project presents the most recent research on the factors that mediate our encounter with Gandhāran art."

Art, Gandhara --- Buddhism in art. --- Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan) --- Antiquities. --- Gandhara art --- Gandhara (Pakistan)

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The Buddha's nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. Surviving Nirvana is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China, of which the nirvana image has been a part for over 1,500 years. --Mining a selection of well-documented and well-preserved examples from the sixth to twelfth centuries, Sonya Lee offers a reassessment of medieval Chinese Buddhism by focusing on practices of devotion and image-making that were inspired by the Buddha

Art, Medieval --- Buddhist art and symbolism --- Buddhism and art --- Buddhism in art. --- Art and Buddhism --- Art --- Buddhist art --- Buddhist symbolism --- Lamaist symbolism --- Symbolism and Buddhist art --- Symbolism --- Medieval art --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Gautama Buddha --- Art. --- Enlightenment. --- Buddhism in art --- S17/0500 --- S17/0530 --- Themes, motives --- China: Art and archaeology--Buddhist art: general --- China: Art and archaeology--Buddhist art: iconography --- Gautama, --- Fo-tʻo --- Buddha, --- Gotama, --- Shih-chia-mou-ni --- Shijiamuni --- Sākyamuni --- Sŏkka --- Buddha --- Sŏgamoni --- Shākyamuni --- Shakamuni-butsu --- Shakuson --- Shittaruta --- Shih-chia Ju-lai --- Phraphutthačhao --- Pultʻa --- Putta --- Siddhartha Gotama --- Gotama, Siddhartha --- Budda --- Śākya-thup-pa --- Shi-chia-mu-ni --- Siddhartha Gautama --- Gautama, Siddhartha --- Bhayavat --- Tathagata --- Siduhat Kumāraya --- Puttar --- Puttan̲ --- Kautama Puttar --- Puttapirān̲ --- Cittārtta Kautama Puttar --- Siddhārtha, --- Tất Đạt Đa --- בודהא --- 釈迦 --- 释迦牟尼 --- 釋迦牟尼 --- Sitthattha Khōtama --- Khōtama, Sitthattha --- Gotama, Siddhatta --- Buddhism and art. --- Buddhist art and symbolism.

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Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in general.

Church history --- Angels in literature. --- Angels in art. --- Angels --- Iconoclasm --- Christianity --- Angels (Buddhism) in art --- Idols and images --- Biblical teaching. --- History. --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- History --- Worship --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Byzantine Empire --- Church history. --- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Byzantine Empire -- History.. --- Iconoclasm -- Byzantine Empire -- History.. --- Angels -- Biblical teaching.. --- Angels in art.. --- Angels in literature.. --- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.. --- Byzantine Empire -- Church history. --- aesthetics. --- ancient world. --- angels in art. --- angels in literature. --- angels. --- archangel. --- art. --- barberini diptych. --- bible. --- bodies. --- byzantine art. --- byzantium. --- cherub. --- cherubim. --- church doctrine. --- divinity. --- early christian theology. --- early church. --- embodiment. --- folk belief. --- folk religion. --- greece. --- hagiography. --- hellenism. --- iconoclasm. --- icons. --- literature. --- madonna. --- magritte. --- michael. --- middle ages. --- religion. --- religious practices. --- saints legends. --- saints lives. --- saints. --- sarcophagus. --- theology. --- unrepresentable. --- virgin and child.