3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Gandharan art in its Buddhist context: Papers from the fifth international workshop of the Gandhara connections project, University of Oxford, 21st-23rd march, 2022
March 2023
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This book considers Gandharan art in relation to its religious contexts and meanings within ancient Buddhism. Addressing the responses of patrons and worshippers at the monasteries and shrines of Gandhara, papers seek to understand more about why Gandharan art was made and what its iconographical repertoire meant to ancient viewers. Gandharan Art in its Buddhist Context is the fifth set of papers from the workshops of the Classical Art Research Centre's Gandhara Connections project. These selected studies revolve around perhaps the most fundamental topic of all for understanding Gandharan art: its religious contexts and meanings within ancient Buddhism. Addressing the responses of patrons and worshippers at the monasteries and shrines of Gandhara, these papers seek to understand more about why Gandharan art was made and what its iconographical repertoire meant to ancient viewers. The contributions from an array of international experts consider dedicatory practices in monasteries, the representation of Buddhas, and the lessons to be learned from some of the latest excavations and survey work in the region.
Preface
March 2023
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Journal article
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Gandharan Art in Its Buddhist Context: Papers from the Fifth International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 21st-23rd March, 2022
Preface
March 2023
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Gandharan Art in Its Buddhist Context: Papers from the Fifth International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 21st-23rd March, 2022
Preface
March 2023
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Journal article
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Gandharan Art in Its Buddhist Context: Papers from the Fifth International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 21st-23rd March, 2022
Connoisseurship
January 2023
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Book
Despite the central importance of connoisseurship in the rarefied world of art collecting, it occupies an uncomfortable position in modern scholarship. On the one hand, the concept retains a significant role in the study of art and the care of public and private collections when it is linked with art appreciation, qualities visible to the attuned eye, or the processes of attribution and authentication. On the other hand, the last century has seen connoisseurship marginalized in academic discourse: it is often associated with amateurism, social elitism, status-display, and intellectual mystification. The present collection of essays enters this breach and--by adopting a broad, interdisciplinary approach--considers connoisseurship afresh, investigating its practice in both familiar and unexpected places. Essays on the role of connoisseurship in Western art history appear alongside innovative, global perspectives on Chinese numismatics and walnut collecting, wine and coffee expertise, the market for geological specimens, and the parallels between Morellian connoisseurship and modern forensics. These essays resonate with one another in surprising ways and create new dialogues about connoisseurship’s meaning and application, demonstrating that its practice can be both intuitive and scientific.
Gandharan Art and the Classical World: A Short Introduction
January 2023
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4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism
Introduction
January 2023
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Connoisseurship
Preface
January 2023
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Journal article
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Connoisseurship
The transmission of Greek and Roman imagery on Silk Roads textiles
October 2022
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Textiles and Clothing Along the Silk Roads: Thematic Collection of the Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Roads
textiles, Roman art, Greek art, Silk Roads
The Technology of Classical Naturalism in Ancient Religious Images
June 2022
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Journal article
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Phoinix
Preface
March 2022
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The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandharan Art: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop of the Gandharan Connections Project, University of Oxford, 24th-26th March, 2021
The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art
March 2022
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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
Roman sarcophagi and Gandharan sculpture
September 2020
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The Global Connections of Gandharan Art: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop of the Gandharan Connections Project, University of Oxford, 18th-19th March, 2019
The Global Connections of Gandhāran Art
September 2020
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This volume addresses directly the question of cross-cultural influence on and by Gandharan art.
A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House
June 2020
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Book
Preface
January 2020
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Journal article
Cóng Yíngpán dào jiān tuó luó – sī lù xīlà huà yìshù yíchǎn zhōng de “luómǎ” yīnsù ['From Yingpan to Gandhara: How ‘Roman’ is the Hellenistic Artistic Legacy on the Silk Road?]
September 2019
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Journal article
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Xiyu Yanjiu [Western Regions Studies]
Preface
March 2019
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Journal article
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The Geography of Gandharan Art
Preface
March 2019
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The Geography of Gandhāran Art
March 2019
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The second volume of the Gandhara Connections project at Oxford University’s Classical Art Research Centre, presenting the proceedings of a workshop held in March 2018.
Art, Gandhara
Introduction
March 2018
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Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art: Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhara Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017
March 2018
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ArtSince the beginning of Gandharan studies in the nineteenth century, chronology has been one of the most significant challenges to the understanding of Gandharan art. Many other ancient societies, including those of Greece and Rome, have left a wealth of textual sources which have put their fundamental chronological frameworks beyond doubt. In the absence of such sources on a similar scale, even the historical eras cited on inscribed Gandharan works of art have been hard to place. Few sculptures have such inscriptions and the majority lack any record of find-spot or even general provenance. Those known to have been found at particular sites were sometimes moved and reused in antiquity. Consequently, the provisional dates assigned to extant Gandharan sculptures have sometimes differed by centuries, while the narrative of artistic development remains doubtful and inconsistent.Building upon the most recent, cross-disciplinary research, debate and excavation, this volume reinforces a new consensus about the chronology of Gandhara, bringing the history of Gandharan art into sharper focus than ever. By considering this tradition in its wider context, alongside contemporary Indian art and subsequent developments in Central Asia, the authors also open up fresh questions and problems which a new phase of research will need to address. Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art is the first publication of the Gandhara Connections project at the University of Oxford's Classical Art Research Centre, which has been supported by the Bagri Foundation and the Neil Kreitman Foundation. It presents the proceedings of the first of three international workshops on fundamental questions in the study of Gandharan art, held at Oxford in March 2017.
Problems of chronology in Gandhāran art: proceedings of the first international workshop of the Gandhāra connections project
March 2018
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SBTMR
Ancient Greek Artists and Texts: Loss and Re-creation
January 2018
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Visual Histories: Visual Remains and Histories of the Classical World. Papers in Honour of R.R.R. Smith
The provenance of the Gandhāran 'Trojan Horse' relief in the British Museum
May 2017
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Arts Asiatiques
Among the most famous Gandhāran sculptures is a relief in the British Museum that represents the story of the Trojan Horse, probably reinvented as a Buddhist narrative. Several contradictory provenances have been recorded for the relief, while its supposed association with Mardān or Chārsadda has become embedded in scholarly literature. Reconsideration of the evidence, including archival sources, establishes the correct origin, at a well near Hund on the Indus. Despite a general lack of evidence for the provenance of Gandhāran sculptures, information of this kind is precious for any attempt to contextualize sculptures such as the “ Trojan Horse” relief.
SBTMR
The Bet Alpha Synagogue Mosaic and Late Antique Provincialism
January 2016
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Jewish Art in its Late Antique Context
Legacies of loss
February 2015
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Journal article
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Apollo
Ephemerality in Roman Votive Images
January 2015
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Figures de dieux: construire le divin en images
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
April 2012
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A Companion to Marcus Aurelius
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
'Geographies of Provincialism in Roman Sculpture'
July 2010
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Research Institutes in the History of Art Journal
Focusing on Roman Britain but using examples across the empire, this article examines the relevance of geography to the form and distribution of "provincialized" classical imagery in the Roman period. This must be explained with reference to the competence of the craftsmen, the expectations of provincial artists and viewers, and geological factors. In some cases geology rather than culture seems to have a surprisingly large role in determining the presence and absence of sculpture. Attention to the material complexities of the geography of provincial sculpture provides a useful foil to considering Roman imperial art as a pervasive visual culture.
'Totenmahl Reliefs in the Northern Provinces: A Case-Study in Imperial Sculpture'
January 2009
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Journal of Roman Archaeology
'Baetyls as Statues? Cult Images in the Roman Near East'
January 2008
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The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power
Gell's Idols and Roman Cult
January 2007
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Art's Agency and Art History
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Ancient Classicism in Retrospect
January 2006
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The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity
The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity
January 2006
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Edited book
Roman Copies?
March 2005
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Journal article
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The Classical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Cult Images on Roman Lamps
January 2000
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Journal article
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Hephaistos
How Romulus Came to Bisley: Sculpture in Roman Britain
January 2000
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Journal article
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Apollo
The Destruction of Statues in Late Antiquity
January 1999
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Chapter
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Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity
Fine Art and Coarse Art: the Image of Roman Priapus
December 1997
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Journal article
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Art History
3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Inventing Britain: the Roman Creation and Adaptation of an Image
January 1995
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Journal article
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Britannia
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Continuity and Tradition in Late Antique Perceptions of Portrait Statuary
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Statuen und Statuensammlungen in der Spätantike – Funktion und Kontext
Introduction
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Problems of Chronology in Gandhāran Art: Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017
Nacktheit II (Ikonographie)
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Realllexikon für Antike und Christentum
Sculpture
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The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome
The Image of the Roman Emperor
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Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects