The Arts of the Silk Roads - Asia Society
WEBBy far the best-known art of the Silk Road is the Buddhist art of murals and statuary in temples and grottoes across Central Asia and into northwestern China. But as justly famous as this Buddhist art is, it is only one of many types of art that have flourished or been transported along the Silk Road over the centuries.
The Silk Roads - Smarthistory
WEBThe paintings and sculpture at these sites tell the story of different artistic traditions that came together along the Silk Roads, including inspiration from Greek art via Gandhara (in present-day north India and Pakistan).
Exploring the Silk Roads - British Museum
WEB'Silk Roads' refer to the network of people, objects and ideas that moved across Afro-Eurasia particularly during the first millennium AD. Central Asia and China's northwest frontier lay at the heart of this network.
Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road
WEBDec 26, 2009 · Drawing from the Ackland’s celebrated collection of Asian art, the special exhibition Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road features over sixty objects which were created along these storied corridors of trade.
Center of the World: China and the Silk Road - National Museum of Asian Art
WEBChinese Art. View All Pieces In This Selection. Located in northwest China, Chang’an (modern Xi’an) served as the gateway to the so-called Silk Road, overland trade routes that linked the prosperous Tang empire with Central, West, and South Asia.
Silk Road transmission of art - Wikipedia
WEBMany artistic influences transited along the Silk Road, especially through the Central Asia, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Chinese influence were able to interact. In particular Greco-Buddhist art represent one of the most vivid examples of this interaction. As shown on the 1st century CE Silk Road map, there is no single road but a ...
Visual Arts of the Historical Silk Road
WEBThe Gandharan figures were partly inspired by provincial Roman images, such as grave portraits produced in Palmyra on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, a trading terminus of the Silk Road. These Gandharan figures wear heavy, toga …
Art of the “Silk Road” - Philadelphia Museum of Art
WEBExplore the art of the “Silk Road” (trade routes used across Eurasia from 130 BCE until 1453 CE) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection.
Arts of the Silk Road | FSI - Stanford University
WEBIn addition to sculpture and pictorial art, the art of the Silk Road includes textiles, ceramics, metalwork, glass, and a wide variety of decorative techniques applied to objects of beauty and utility.
The Silk Road — Google Arts & Culture
WEBThe Silk Road spanned over 1,000 years outlasting empires, disease, wars, and famines. It saw the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty, the Mongol Empire and the Roman Empire, and even lasted...