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| Keywords: Indian - Head, Probably of the Buddha - Walters 2590.jpg The sculptors of Mathura developed ideals of beauty that influenced all later Indian sculptors Texts describe the perfect man who is beautifully proportioned The parts of his body are like forms found in nature and his eyes are like lotus flowers Sculptors conceived of the body of the perfect man as being smoothly rounded; even images of gods who perform miraculous feats of strength have no visible muscles In Buddhist art of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC the Buddha the enlightened prince who had imparted the truths he had discovered to a group of disciples several centuries earlier was not depicted Sculptors suggested his presence by devices such as footprints Buddhist monks or lay people had to imagine him From the 1st through the 5th century AD sculptors at Mathura were laying the foundations for much Indian religious art using the easily identified mottled red sandstone as a medium They made images not only for Buddhists but also for Hindus and Jains Although no trait remains that can prove the identification this head could have come from a stele depicting the seated Buddha with right hand raised in a gesture of salutation what was later called the fear not gesture and may have lost its topknot and the reserve of stone attaching it to a backslab ca 2nd century Kushan mottled pink sandstone cm 26 7 24 2 accession number 25 90 40753 Sale Sotheby's New York September 20 1985 lot 325 Private collection Walters Art Museum Anonymous gift 1987 place of origin Mathura India Walters Art Museum license Sculptures from India in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Statues of the Buddha from India Art of the Kushan Empire from Mathura 2nd-century art of India Buddhist art in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
