Portraiture in early India : between transience and eternity /
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| Author / Creator: | Lefèvre, Vincent. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 2, South Asia, 0169-9377 ; v. 25 Handbook of oriental studies. Section two, South Asia ; v. 25. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099434 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction Portraiture, a Problematic Issue; Chapter One Identifying Portraits; 1. Painted portraits; 2. Portraits in the round and devotional portraiture; 2.1. Life-size and free standing portraits; 2.2. Devotional portraiture; 3. Coins; 4. Double-meaning images; 5. Naming the image; Chapter Two Viddha / Aviddha. Different Kinds of Portraits for Different Kinds of Purpose; 1. Some study cases; 1.1. Narasiṃha Ganga; 1.2. Kṛṣṇadevarāya; 1.3. Rājarāja I; 1.4. Jayavarman VII; 2. The likeness issue: textual evidence.
- 3. Physiognomic portraits3.1. Portraiture and identity; 3.2. Portrait as a substitute; 3.3. The Pratimānātaka or the ambiguity of likeness; 4. Typological portraits; 5. Portraiture as social and historical marker; Chapter Three Portraits, Worship and Divine Images; 1. Portraits, commemoration and death; 2. Portraiture and funerary and/or dynastic temples; 2.1. The Pratimānāṭaka; 2.2. Kusạ̄ṇa dynastic shrines; 2.3. South Indian 'funerary' temples; 2.4. 'Funerary' temples in Southeast Asia; 3. Divine portrait, human portrait; 3.1. Myths on the origin of images; 3.2. Divine images as portraits.
- 3.3. Ritual installation (pratiṣṭhā) of portraits4. Portraiture and deification; Chapter Four The Origin of Portraiture and the Representation of Heroes; 1. Portraiture in pre-and proto-historical times; 2. Portraiture in the Early-Historical period (Maurya-Śuṅga times); 2.1. Early human figures; 2.2. Portraits or Yaksas?; 2.2.1. The issue: statues and the cult of Yaksạs; 2.2.2. The debate: Yaksạ or royal portrait?; 2.2.3. The Yaksạ in ancient literature; 2.2.4. Back to the portrait interpretation?; 2.2.5. The case of Bharhut.
- 3. Portraits and the first 'divine images' at the beginning of the era (Kusạ̄ṇa period)3.1. Stories on the origin of the images of Buddha and Mahāvīra; 3.2. The Vrsni Vīras and the first representations of Krsna; Chapter Five The Royal Portrait, Portrait Par Excellence?; 1. The king as model; 1.1. In normative treatises; 1.2. The king as visual source; 2. Portraiture as political instrument; 2.1. Diplomacy, propaganda and legitimization; 2.2. Historical reliefs; 3. Allegorical portraits; 3.1. Allegorical portraits under the Guptas; 3.2. Allegorical portraits under the Pallavas.
- 3.3. Portraiture and political metaphorsAppendix Vaikuṇtḥaperumāl ̣Temple, Kanchipuram: Iconography of the Surrounding Galleries; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.