Kings and Commoners: Mobility and Identity in The Art of Early Mathura (2nd C. Bce – 5th C. Ce)
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13 Feb
14 Feb
2025
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Indian Aesthetics
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Chandreyi Basu
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Inscribed image of Śākyamuni created by Dinna and dated to year 115, Gupta period, Govindnagar, red sandstone; Government Museum Mathura 76.25. Courtesy: Biswarup Ganguly
Located at the intersection of three major cultural zones – Bactria and Gandhara, the Gangetic valley, and the Deccan – Mathura’s stone sculptural workshops in the early historic period received generous support from kings and commoners, who were based locally or belonged to distant regions. The four talks in this seminar will explore themes of physical and social mobility as well as outward, inward, and cross flows of people and ideas using select examples of Mathura’s art.
Session I: Outward flows: The monk bala and the artist Dinna as Mathura’s brand ambassadors
Session II: Inward flows: Huvishka as a master influencer
Session III: Passing through: Cattle herders and animal-headed deities
Session IV: Itinerancy: Ascetics and their disciples
Online Public Lecture on ZOOM
P.S: The Zoom link to join the lecture will be shared 24 hours prior to the talk.
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February 13, 14, 2025
Timing: Lecture: 6:30 - 8:30 pm IST
Fees
Rs. 2,000 (For student discounts registrations kindly email info@jp-india.org)
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Chandreyi Basu
Chandreyi Basu is Associate Professor at St. Lawrence University, USA, where she has taught Asian art since earning herPh.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Her scholarship focuses on the art of early historic northwest India and Pakistan, specifically patronage and iconography of Mathura sculpture.Her recent publications highlight the urban underpinnings of Gandharan narrative art and the interactions between non-human and human animals in ancient Bharhut. She recently curated an exhibit for the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence featuring nearly fifty paintings by thirty five individual Indian artists working outside mainstream contemporary art.