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Arts of the Silk Road


Arts of the Silk Road | FSI - SPICE - Stanford

By far the best-known art of the Silk Road is the Buddhist art of murals and statuary in temples and grottoes across Central Asia and into northwestern China.

Silk Road transmission of art - Wikipedia

Silk Road transmission of art ... Many artistic influences transited along the Silk Road, especially through the Central Asia, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian ...

2639 results for silk road - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Buddhism along the Silk Road. Drawing together objects from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the western reaches of Central Asia—regions connected in the sixth ...

The Silk Roads - Smarthistory

The name “Silk Road” was given to the network of ancient trade routes crossing Asia by the German traveler and geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 ...

Visual Arts of the Historical Silk Road | Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Many textiles show Persian motifs, most notably the pearl-encircled roundel with figurative designs such as men on rearing horses facing backward to shoot ...

Arts and Literature | Silk Roads Programme - UNESCO

The Trade Route and the Diffusion of Artistic Traditions In South and Southeast Asia. The cultural history of most countries in South and Southeast Asia was ...

Art of the “Silk Road” - Philadelphia Museum of Art

Explore the art of the “Silk Road” (trade routes used across Eurasia from 130 BCE until 1453 CE) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection.

Featured Topic: Art & Trade on the Silk Road

An extensive image archive featuring manuscripts, paintings, textiles, sculptures, murals, coins, and other artifacts from six Silk Road excavation sites: 1) ...

Exploring the Silk Roads | British Museum

These include small stucco reliefs, pieces of ceramics and glass, fragments of wall paintings and textiles, painted wooden panels, as well as everyday utensils.

Silk Road Art

The fabrics discovered there include woolens and silk embroidered with silk thread or decorated with silk appliques. ... Such a pattern of the exchange of ...

The Silk Road - Google Arts & Culture

1453 AD, Rise of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire controlled the western end of the Silk Road and began taxing goods. They also imposed religious rules on ...

The arts on the silk road - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press

Abstract. 'The arts on the silk road' provides a sample of shared Eurasian cultural and intellectual themes. Vernacular tales throughout Eurasia shared cer.

Arts and Literature | Silk Roads Programme - UNESCO

The arts of the book in Central Asia between the eighth and sixteenth centuries were centred around miniatures and calligraphy. The spread of new trends and ...

Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road - Ackland Art Museum

Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road uses the relationships between objects from geographically distinct regions to illustrate the ...

Interweaving Cultures along the Silk Road(s) - Spencer Museum of Art

Interweaving Cultures along the Silk Road(s) · Textiles are often interwoven or imprinted with rich sources of cultural fusion. · Buddhism is a ...

Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin ...

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Silk Roads | British Museum

Rather than a single trade route from East to West, the Silk Roads were made up of overlapping networks linking communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, ...

Buddhist Art Styles and Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Road

Over the centuries, Indian culture exerted varying degrees of influence on Chinese Buddhist art. Early Chinese Buddha images relied heavily on Indian prototypes ...

Dunhuang: Buddhist Art At The Gateway Of The Silk Road

Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road will address art and ritual practices of the Northern dynasties (420-589) and the Tang dynasty (618-907).

Center of the World: China and the Silk Road

While some traders and artisans traveled back and forth across Asia, others settled in China, where they helped fuel a fashion for Central Asian culture. One ...