The Art of India

20,000 B.C. to 500 A.D.

HUNTING A DEER
 HUNTING A DEER

•PREHISTORIC ROCK PAINTINGS OF BHIMABETAKA

•20,000 TO 5000 YEARS OLD

•40 MILES SOUTH OF BHOPAL

•NOTICE THE GRASS IN THE DEER’S STOMACH

PREHISTORIC GROUP DANCING
 PREHISTORIC GROUP DANCING

•ROCK PAINTINGS OF BHIMABETAKA

•NEAR BHOPAL, INDIA

•20,000 TO 5,000 YEARS AGO

•DRAWN ON ROCK HILLSIDES

PREHISTORIC ROCK PAINTINGS OF BHIMABETAKA
 PREHISTORIC CHARIOT OR PLOW

•Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka

•Near Bhopal, India

•20,000 to 5,000 years ago

ADORNING THE SELF
ADORNING THE SELF

•Woman puts on make-up

•Wooden sculpture

•Indus Valley Civilization

•3000-1500 B.C.
Reclining Mouflon
(wild sheep)
 Reclining Mouflon
• Harappan, Indus Valley

• 2600 - 1900 B.C.

Dancer in Repose
 Dancer in Repose
•Bronze Statue of a Dancer

•Moheno-Daro Civilization

•Indus Valley Art

•2nd Century B.C.

Lord Buddha from Sarnath
Temple Painting
 Lord Buddha from a Sarnath Temple
Painting

•Shows Buddha undisturbed by the evils and

pleasures of life

•1st Century A.D., India

PANDYAN STONE STATUE
 PANDYAN STONE STATUE

•200 B.C. TO 300 B.C.

•PANDYAN DYNASTY

•MADUARI, TAMIL NADU

•SOUTHERNMOST REGION OF INDIA

Bodhisatva with Lotus in Hand
 Bodhivista with Lotus in Hand

•Bodhivista--painting from Ajanta

•Cave painting from Ajanta Caves

(series of 29 caves of Buddhist monasteries
and prayer halls)

•Ajanta Gorge on the Deccan Plateau, India

•4th Century A.D.

Three-storied Buddhist School
 Three-storied Buddhist School

•From the Caves of Ellora in Maharashtra,

India

•5th Century A.D., India’s Golden Age

Kailasa Temple at Ellora
Kailasa Temple at Ellora

• Rock-cut masonry

•Hindu temple
•Dedicated to Shiva

•Life sized elephants

•Maharashtra, India (near Bombay)

Buddha, Ajanta Caves
BUDDHA, AJANTA CAVES
•Chiseled Stone

•1st Century B.C.

•Sanctuary to Buddha

•Aurangabad, India