short note on ghandhar art
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I think it is gandhara art and not ghandhar art so here's the answerGandhara is the ancient name of a region in northwest Pakistan bounded on the west by the Hindu Kush mountain range and to the north by the foothills of the Himalayas. In 330 B.C., Alexander the Great conquered this region and, together with the Indo-Greek kings that succeeded him, introduced classical traditions that became an important part of Gandhara’s artistic vocabulary over the next seven centuries. This contact resulted in the establishment of overland trade routes through the Parthian empire and Indo-Greek cities like Ai-Khanoum in northern Afghanistan. Starting about 50 B.C., this trade dramatically increased with the introduction of ocean routes employing monsoon winds to cross the Arabian Sea. These sea routes supplied an expanding overland trade network that passed through Gandhara and continued on to Central Asia and China. Gandharan control of the high mountain passes vital to this international commerce made the region wealthy; the resulting cosmopolitan elites became some of the most powerful Buddhist patrons in all of South Asia.
This art is a Buddhist visual art that developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between 1st century BC and 7th century CE.
Its origin seems having spread widely during Kushan dynasty and was contemporaneous with significant but dissimilar school of Kushan art at Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) of India.