Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: North India, Foundations of North Indian Style c. 250 BC AD 1100 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195623134 ISBN 13 : 9780195623130

Editeur : OUP India, 1998

Synopsis

It covers Gupta experiments in brick and stone, Vakataka temple - remains, evidence from Western Ghats caves, early Hindu and Buddhist brick structures from eastern India, Manadapika pandals in central India, pent-roof stone structure of Kashmir, etc.,

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À propos des auteurs

Michael W. Meister is an art historian, archaeologist and architectural historian at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as chair of the Department of South Asia Studies (SASt) and Director of Pennsylvania's South Asia Centre; he is Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; and Faculty Curator of the South Asia Art Archive within the Penn Library's South Asia Image Collection.

M.A. Dhaky is an eminent scholar of art and architecture. An author and editor of several books. He is Director (Emeritus), American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon.

Krishna Deva was an eminent scholar of Indian Art, Architecture, and Archaeology. He retired as Director, Archaeological Survey of India. He had the distinction of assisting the famous explorer Sir Aurel Stein in his archaeological explorations in Rajasthan, Bahawalpur and Baluchistan during 1940-1. He was also actively associated with Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in India between 1944 and 1947. In addition, he conducted excavations at Rajaghat (Varanasi), Nagar near Jaipur, Vaisali and Kumrahar (Pataliputra). He had classified and reported on the pottery from Taxila, Arikamedu and Harappa. In addition to organizing the Temple Survey Project (North Region) of the Archaeological Survey of India, he was also deputed by the Government of India to make an Iconographical and Sculptural Survey of the images in Nepal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195623134
• ISBN 13: 9780195623130
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 780
• Éditeur: Meister Michael W, Dhaky M A, Deva Krishna
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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