Seated Buddha

Name: Seated Buddha

Date: second-third century AD

Location: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Approximate Dimensions: 34 inches

Sculptor: unknown. Commissioned by the Kushan rulers of northwest India

Medium: dark grey schist

Sources: Arts and Culture

Picture taken from: http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/2002_556.html

Significance of the work:

This work is from the northwest area of India. It was commissioned in the Kushan Empire around the second and third centuries AD. This and other Buddha sculptures from the era show a Greco-Roman influence. This particular seated Buddha is wearing a deep ridged Roman toga. Its facial features are very much like Apollo’s.