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Analyse the characteristic features of the Gupta art and compare them with those of the Mauryan art.
- UPSC 1992
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
Separated by roughly six centuries and the intervening Sunga-Kushana experience, Mauryan and Gupta art represent two distinct "classical moments" in ancient Indian art history, but they are classical in opposite senses: Mauryan art is the classicism of an imperial state imposing a single visual language from above, while Gupta art is the classicism of a…
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