Torso of a Seated Buddha
Featured
Scan The World
2,490
views
99
downloads
0 comments
Loading comments... 
Torso of a Seated Buddha
3D
Published 2019-10-28T15:17:21+00:00
2
0
Add to Collection
Description
Some of the earliest images of the Buddha were created at Mathura in northern India. As with this figure, they often showed the Buddha's chest fully expanded with yogic breath, or pana, representing spiritual power. The now missing right hand was probably raised in a gesture bestowing freedom from fear (abhaya mudra) Early Buddhist images were probably inspired by the images of kings and nature spirits also made in North India then, with the same expanded chests and raised right hands.
Lizenz
Technical Information
| Date published | 28/10/2019 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Easy |
More Information
| Title | Torso of a Seated Buddha |
| Date | 200-250 AD |
| Dimension | Height: 119 cm, Width: 58 cm, Depth: 30 cm, Weight: 290 kg |
| Accession | IS.213-2006 |
| Medium | Sandstone |
| Credit | Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund, the Antony Gardner Memorial Fund, and a private donor. |
| Record | https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O127873/seated-buddha-sculpture-unknown/ |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Object Parts
