Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Edie_DerVrit @WilhelmLennox @archaeologyart Yes, one of the world's most remarkable melting pots. And from the same area, a 'Caucasian Buddha'. Buddhism meets Greco-Roman. At the Portland, OR, art museum. Images mine from a few years back

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Hallowedart The analogy rarely drawn but the fusion of Roman, Carolingian and Ottonian, Byzantine, and local Germanic traditions defining the mature Romanesque school finds a multi-ethnic correlative in the Hellenistic features of (1-6 CE) Gandharan Buddhist art in the Greco-Roman style.Quoted by@Hallowedart The analogy rarely drawn but the fusion of Roman, Carolingian and Ottonian, Byzantine, and local Germanic traditions defining the mature Romanesque school finds a multi-ethnic correlative in the Hellenistic features of (1-6 CE) Gandharan Buddhist art in the Greco-Roman style.Quoted by@AntigoneJournal @corneliagracchi @BijanOmrani As such, the ‘Caucasian Buddha’ in the Portland, OR, art museum. ?s=20