Fragment Of A Protome From A Gandhara Bas Relief - Pakistan

Horse head in schist typical of Gandhara composition and "Greco-Buddhist Art". We can then think of the bronze horses of Constantinople which, in a way, are similar in their apprehension of sculpted volumes. According to specialists, Gandhâra and the Buddhist art associated with it correspond to the region surrounding the valley of Peshâwar. We see appearing under the reign of the Kushans, a dynasty of Iranian origin which dominates a vast empire extending from Central Asia to the Ganges valley, two great schools of sculpture, almost contemporary: Mathura in the south, in an aesthetic typically Indian, and Gandhâra, more marked by Hellenism, due to the installation in this region of descendants of the companions of Alexander the Great.

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