Mathura: Head of a Buddha
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。笈多王朝（約320～550）佛教哲學傾向內省、深化及玄奧的精神領域，佛像雕刻即著重於在物質美及精神美之間取得最佳的平衡，以表現這種高貴純潔的精神內涵。該像即透過高雅單純的肖像美，刻劃佛陀超凡入聖的氣質。
佛高肉髻，右旋螺髮刻劃清晰，排列整齊。五官輪廓線條優美，顯現印度人的相貌特徵。臉形橢圓，以雙線勾勒出細長高挑的眉毛，雙眼垂視，流露專注於冥想的神態。鼻子已磨損，下唇豐厚，隱喻含笑的表情打破了肅穆的氛圍，展現佛的悲憫及善解，突顯出笈多藝術的細膩性。耳朵原有矩形的長耳垂，今已破損，頸部三道紋，展現笈多王朝佛像的標準特徵。
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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