Indian art refers to works of art and architecture produced on the Indian subcontinent, which is now divided among India, Bangladesh and this country.
What is Pakistan?
200
Regarded by the Chinese as the highest art form
What is calligraphy?
200
Form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
African art comes from the vast area surrounding the Niger and this basin.
What is the Congo?
200
The earliest Indian art and civic planning emerged from the valley of this river.
What is the Indus?
300
In the T'ang period these were usually simple, square structures; they later became more elaborate in shape and adornment.
What is a pagoda?
300
In this period (late 12C-14C), the country was governed by the military, which preferred boldness to refinement, action to contemplative atmosphere, and realism to formality.
What is Kamakura?
300
In these religions "being" is regarded as vital energy and not solely as the living state.
What is animist?
300
The earliest stupas date to this dynasty.
What is Sunga?
400
These vary from the most meager incision to the most ornate plastic embellishment and from the most severely abstract to some naturalistic representations
What are ritual bronzes?
400
The earliest art of Japan also the name for the early period of Japanese art.
What is Jomon?
400
Disk-head fertility dolls made by the Ashanti people.
What is akua'ba?
400
This dynasty created famous edict pillars that are monolithic, smooth columns are over fifty feet high and are surmounted by lotus capitals and animal figures.
What is Maurya dynasty?
500
Where the oldest finds of Chinese artifacts were found.
What is B'ei-li-kang.
500
The famous illustrated scroll of the "Tale of the Genji" was created in this period.
What is the Fujiwara period?
500
These people are known for stools supported by carved kneeling female figures; seated female figures holding bowls and hemispherical kifwebe masks.
What is Baluba?
500
The dynasty which the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple was built.