Indian Architecture and Sculpture, Mauryan and Post-Mauryan Period & Visual, Performing and Other Arts for Competitive Exams

Doorsteptutor material for competitive exams is prepared by world's top subject experts: get questions, notes, tests, video lectures and more- for all subjects of your exam.

Indian Architecture and Sculpture

Indus Valley Civilization

• Architecture
• Town planning
• Public bath
• Granaries
• dockyard
• Sculpture
• Bronze and terracotta sculpture
• Seals
• Stone sculpture
• Miscelleneous
• Ornaments
• pottery

Mauryan and Post-Mauryan Period (Buddhist Art)

• Outside influence is present Persian and Achaemenian

Gandhar Mathura Amravati

The Gupta Age

• Timeline 4 A. D. to 6 A. D. approx.
• Art, science and literature flourished greatly during their time.
• The iconographic canons of Brahmanical, Jain, and Buddhist divinities were perfected and standardized.
• Two climax in this era.
• Architecture
• Cave architecture
• Temple architecture
• Sculpture
• Sarnath school of sculpture

Visual, Performing and Other Arts

• We can divide the subject in three parts for our convenience.

1. Visual Arts

2. Performing Arts

3. Miscelleneous Art Forms