Classical Art and Ancient India - Ancient Art Connections workshop 21st-22nd March 2023

'Classical Art and Ancient India', a hybrid workshop supported by the Bagri Foundation, was the first event in CARC's #AncientArtConnections initiative as well as building upon the Gandhara Connections project. The workshop brought together invited international speakers and a worldwide audience to address a topic very closely related to Gandhara and vital for placing classical art in its global context: the question of how much mutual artistic exchange occurred between other parts of India, Greece and Rome in antiquity, and what we stand to learn by studying their art traditions alongside each other.

Read workshop abstract here.
Speakers' abstracts now downloadable here.
Workshop programme downloadable here.

Watch the videos of the presentations and discussions below.

DAY 1

Introduction
Keynote lecture by William Dalrymple,  From Berenike to Ajanta: The Romano-Egyptian Connection to the Early Buddhist Art of South and Central Asia

Greeks and the Art of India: Philosophy through Art, Prof Richard Stoneman (University of Exeter)
Yavanas in Early Indian inscriptions, Prof Upinder Singh (Ashoka University, Sonipat)

Beyond Gandhara: Syncretic Arts of the Early Indian Ocean World (1st century BCE – 3rd century CE), Dr Sunil Gupta (Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi)
Small Figurines Shaping the Ancient Global World, Dr Serena Autiero (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

DAY 2

Coining Koine – Reading Numismatic Images in Context of Global Exchange, Dr Jeremy Simmons (University of Maryland)
The Navagraha (the Nine Planets) in Indian Art and their Graeco-Roman Connections, Dr Mandira Sharma (New Delhi)

Reflections of Roman Art in Southern India: Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda, Dr Elizabeth Rosen Stone (New York)
About Ivory and Theatre – The Exchange between Āndhradeśa and the West, Prof Monika Zin (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig)
Response by Prof Juhyung Rhi (Seoul National University) and closing discussion.