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Current Exhibitions
The South Asia Galleries
Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture
Opened August 10, 2007
Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, 2nd floor
These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the second century B.C. and the eighth century A.D. More than one hundred sixty works from the permanent collection are juxtaposed to trace the range of stylistic and iconographic developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during a period that witnessed great ideological ferment and international exchange. The recently published volume The Art of Gandhara in The Metropolitan Museum of Art addresses much of this early production.
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