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The Art of India

20,000 B.C. to 500 A.D.

HUNTING A DEER

HUNTING A DEER

•PREHISTORIC ROCK PAINTINGS OF BHIMABETAKA

•20,000 TO 5000 YEARS OLD

•40 MILES SOUTH OF BHOPAL

•NOTICE THE GRASS IN THE DEER’S STOMACH

PREHISTORIC GROUP DANCING

PREHISTORIC GROUP DANCING

•ROCK PAINTINGS OF BHIMABETAKA

•DRAWN ON ROCK HILLSIDES

•NEAR BHOPAL, INDIA

•20,000 TO 5,000 YEARS AGO

PREHISTORIC ROCK PAINTINGS OF BHIMABETAKA

PREHISTORIC CHARIOT OR PLOW

•Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka

•Near Bhopal, India

•20,000 to 5,000 years ago

ADORNING THE SELF

ADORNING THE SELF

•Woman puts on make-up

•Wooden sculpture

•Indus Valley Civilization

•3000-1500 B.C.

Reclining Mouflon (wild sheep)

Reclining Mouflon

• Harappan, Indus Valley

• 2600 - 1900 B.C.

Dancer in Repose

Dancer in Repose

•Bronze Statue of a Dancer

•Moheno-Daro Civilization

•Indus Valley Art

•2nd Century B.C.

Lord Buddha from SarnathTemple Painting

Lord Buddha from a Sarnath Temple Painting

•Shows Buddha undisturbed by the evils and pleasures of life

•1st Century A.D., India

PANDYAN STONE STATUE

PANDYAN STONE STATUE

•200 B.C. TO 300 B.C.

•PANDYAN DYNASTY

•MADUARI, TAMIL NADU

•SOUTHERNMOST REGION OF INDIA

Bodhisatva with Lotus in Hand

•Bodhivista--painting from Ajanta

•Cave painting from Ajanta Caves (series of 29 caves of Buddhist monasteries and prayer halls)

•Ajanta Gorge on the Deccan Plateau, India

•4th Century A.D.

Bodhivista with Lotus in Hand

Three-storied Buddhist School

Three-storied Buddhist School

•From the Caves of Ellora in Maharashtra India

•5th Century A.D., India’s Golden Age

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Kailasa Temple at Ellora

Kailasa Temple at Ellora

• Rock-cut masonry

•Hindu temple•Dedicated to Shiva

•Life sized elephants

•Maharashtra, India (near Bombay)

Buddha, Ajanta Caves

BUDDHA, AJANTA CAVES

•Chiseled Stone

•1st Century B.C.

•Sanctuary to Buddha

•Aurangabad, India