Mathura: Head of a Buddha
Red sandstone
佛頭像
印度北方邦秣菟羅出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅（Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）出土。秣菟羅自貴霜王朝（約1〜3世紀）以後，活潑的造像活動仍持續著，進入笈多王朝（約320～550），佛像造型趨向成熟，有古典樣式之稱，此佛頭像是具備該時代特色的實例之一。
佛螺髮高肉髻，表現規整及富美感的渦形紋樣。豐厚的耳朵沿著頭側垂下，鵝卵形的臉龐，飽滿豐潤，肌膚細膩。具張力的弧線形雙眉隆起連接鼻梁，棱線凸起。杏仁形的雙目微啟，其上下眼瞼皆呈上揚狀。鼻翼寬，厚實緊閉的嘴唇，作冥想之狀態。線條刻劃深入，技法洗練，為文化圓熟笈多王朝的作品。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 694.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 694.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Head of a Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:694.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Head of a Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 694).
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