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In theory, the expression “Indian art” spans the impressive variety of artistic styles, and richness of shapes, images and religious ideas on the Indian subcontinent. From the Indus Valley to the Aryo-Indian period, from the Middle Ages to Mughal Indo-Islamic domination. |
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From the Middle East to India
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Islamic art evolved through contact between elements of Arab, Syriac, Byzantine, Persian-Sassanid, Turkish and Mongol-Chinese tradition, and comprises art forms produced in countries of Islamic culture from 7th century to the present day. |
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Buddhist art is essentially a narrative art form with highly developed iconography. Originally from the Indian subcontinent after the life of Gautama Buddha, from 6th to 10th centuries b.c. it spread through the contact between different cultures in central Asia and the Far East. |
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