prepare four clay seals using potters clay by engraving or carving on them an animal a flower the national emblem of india and tree
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Mauryan art
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Mauryan art
The Lion Capital of Asoka, National Emblem of India, the most famous example of Mauryan art.
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Mauryan art is the art produced during the period of the Mauryan Empire, which was the first empire to rule over most of the Indian subcontinent, between 322 and 185 BCE. It represented an important transition in Indian art from use of wood to stone. It was a royal art patronized by Mauryan kings especially Ashoka. Pillars, Stupas, caves are the most prominent survivals.
The most significant remains of monumental Mauryan art include the remains of the royal palace and the city of Pataliputra, a monolithic rail at Sarnath, the Bodhimandala or the altar resting on four pillars at Bodhgaya, the rock-cut chaitya-halls in the Barabar Caves near Gaya including the Sudama cave bearing the inscription dated the 12th regnal year of Ashoka, the non-edict bearing and edict bearing pillars, the animal sculptures crowning the pillars with animal and vegetal reliefs decorating the abaci of the capitals and the front half of the representation of an elephant carved out in the round from a live rock at Dhauli.[1]
Most scholars agree that Mauryan art was influenced by Greek and Persian art, especially in imperial sculpture and architecture.[4] Political and cultural contacts between the Greek and Persian cultures and India were intensive and ran for a long period of time, encouraging the propagation of their advances in the area of sculpture.[4]
Contents
1 Sculpture
1.1 Pillars and their capitals
1.2 Pillars of Mauryan period Art
1.3 Features of Mauryan period art Pillars
1.3.1 Sarnath Pillar
1.4 Bull capital Rampurva Bihar
1.5 "Popular" sculpture
1.6 Terracottas
1.7 Ringstones
2 Painting
3 Architecture
4 Pottery
5 Coins
6 Gallery
7 Notes
8 References
Sculpture
Rampurva bull capital, detail of the abacus, with two "flame palmettes" framing a lotus surrounded by small rosette flowers.
This period marked an imaginative and impressive step forward in Indian stone sculpture; much previous sculpture was probably in wood and has not survived. The elaborately carved animal capitals surviving on from some Pillars of Ashoka are the best known works, and among the finest, above all the Lion Capital of Ashoka from Nathans that is now the National Emblem of India. Congresswoman distinguishes between court art and a more popular art during the Mauryan period. Court art is represented by the pillars and their capitals, and surviving popular art by some stone pieces, and many smaller works in terracotta.
The highly polished surface of court sculpture is often called Mauryan polish. However this seems not to be entirely reliable as a diagnostic tool for a Mauryan date, as some works from considerably later periods also have it. The Didarganj Yakshi, now most often thought to be from the 2nd century CE, is an example.