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Ancient Indian History UPPSC 1996 GS-I
Question

The Gandhara School of art is the synthesis of:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: Indian and Greek Art

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Indian and Greek Art”.

Gandhara art, style of Buddhist visual art that developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between the 1st century BC and the 7th century CE.

The style, of Greco-Roman origin, seems to have flourished largely during the Kushan dynasty and was contemporaneous with an important but dissimilar school of Kushan art at Mathura (Uttar Pradesh, India).

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