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Indian Art on the Silk Road and its Impact

Speaker: Prof. Monika Zin, Department of Indology & Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
 
Chair: Dr. R.C. Agarwal
 
The lecture will provide an overview of the art on the fringes of the Taklamakan Desert; and special reference will be made to the region of Kucha with its magnificent wall-paintings that go back directly to Indian prototypes. It will present the latest, still unpublished results of research and will discuss select examples of the transfer of Indian archetypical image types to the Far East
 

Event starts on Wednesday, 06 January 2016 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Talks

Dates

06 Jan 2016, 05:30 AM

Venue

Indian Art on the Silk Road and its Impact