Gandhara Stucco Head

The art of the Gandhara introduced the first representation of the Buddha as a person and not only as a symbol as before. Carried by the Hellenize Scythian tribes, the cannon of Greek and more largely Hellenistic culture arrived to Asia. With the new and quick development of Buddhist Religious foundations and convents, the demand of Buddhist Iconographic programs increased drastically at the end of the 4th c and beginning of the 5th c. To answer the blooming demand, artists had to find a faster way to decorate the walls and salas of the monasteries. The stucco technique was the response. We here looking at a face a young man, showing in the same time the figures of an Asian and a Caucasian type. the face is smooth and was probably moulded in numbers, then personified more precisely with a specific hair arrangement according to impersonnification. – (HK.4)