ARTH 212/612
(SARS 213/601)
Cities
and Temples of Ancient India
Instructor: Professor Meister
TR 10:30-12
Course Description
The wooden architecture of ancient India's cities is represented in relief carvings from Buddhist religious monuments of the early centuries A.D. and replicated in remarkable excavated cave cathedrals. This course will trace that architectural tradition, its transformation into a symbolic vocabulary for a new structure, the Hindu temple, and the development of the temple in India from ca. 500-1500 A.D. |
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