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South and Southeast Asia
Gardner's Chapters 6 and 26
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Art History
12th Grade
12/12/2010

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Name: The Great Stupa

Date: Third Century BCE- First Century CE

Style: Early Indian

Artist/Architect: N/A

Patron: Buddhist worshippers and Ashoka

Location: Sanchi, India

Technique: Solid earthen mounds containing relics of Buddha covered in carved stones with patron's names

Descriptive terms: Huge, round, rough, circambulating worshippers, toranas (gates) oriented at the cardinal directions, stone fence to keep out impurities

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Name:Life and Death of Buddha Frieze

 Date: Second Century CE

Style: Kushan Dynasty

Artist: unknown artisan

Patron: Buddhists

Location: Gandhara Pakistan

Technique: carved relief in sandstone

Descriptive terms: Follows the life of Buddha left to right in chronological order, influenced by roman reliefs, peaceful, shows opulence of ideal Buddha setting, illustrates quest for knowledge and the Eightfold path.

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Name: Vishvanatha Temple

Date: 1000 CE

Style: Early Medieval

Artist: N/A

Patrons: Buddhists

Location: Khajuraho, India

Technique: Carved stone temple in the "Northern" style

Descriptive terms: beehive like towers, amalaka (ribbed cushionlike form), smaller tower roofs over the halls, ascending towers like the Himalayas of Shiva's home

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Name: Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings

Date:1615-1618 CE

Style: Mughal Empire

Artist: Bichtir

Patron:Jahangir (successor of Akbar)

Location: Mughal Capital of India

Technique: Indian Miniature Painting (opaque watercolor on paper)

Descriptive Terms: Ornate background and border, allegorical with the hourglass throne, clothed cupids, radiant halo, Bichter's self portrait, King James I, Sufi and a Turkish Sultan, shows emperor's spirtitual power over worldly power

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Name:Schwedagon Pagoda

Date: 14th century

Style: Modern Southeast Asia

Artist: N/A rebuilt several times

Patron: Buddhist worshippers of Myanmar

Location:Myanmar (Burma)

Technique:Sheathed gold pagoda

Descriptive Terms: Opulent, lavishly gold, 13,153 square feet of gold plates, 4,351 diamonds on top, very tall (344 ft), surrounded by smaller pagodas, contains two buddha hairs,

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