Culture/Country: Northwest India, Gandhara Region
Period: 3rd century
Medium: Gray schist
Dimensions: 19 x 17 x13 1/2 in.
Collection: Crow Collection of Asian Art
Accession Number: 1982.33
Culture/Country: Tibet
Period: c. 18th century
Medium: Copper alloy, gilding and pigment
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.
Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art
Accession Number: 1982.38
Culture/Country: India
Period: Mughal period (1572-1756)
Medium: White marble inlaid with lapis lazuli, malachite, carnelian agate, nephrite, and conglomerate stones
Dimensions: 138 1/2 x 50 1/2 x 50 1/2 in.
Collection Title: Crow Collection of Asian Art
Accession Number: 1985.48
Westerners have long focused on the religious nature of Indian and Southeast Asian art. In an effort to shed new light on our understanding of the art of these regions, this exhibition explores the aesthetic qualities that made them sacred. Religious practices played a significant role in the development of the subcontinent’s notable production of stone and metal sculptures. To help visitors appreciate the artistic inventiveness from a perspective of highly diversified subjects and the actual execution, this exhibition is presented primarily in a comparative way. Sculptures selected from the permanent collection are organized by media and regional stylistic variations. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor of Art and History at the University of Texas at Austin.