Portraiture in Early India - Between Transience and Eternity

This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious implications related to this issue.

About the author

Vincent Lefèvre, Ph.D (2004) in Indian Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, is curator, formerly at the Musée Guimet, Paris, and now for the Louvre Abu Dhabi project. He has published extensively on Indian art and on Sanskrit normative texts.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent Lefèvre
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2011
• EAN: 9789004207356
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20735-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 248 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 654 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history