Prehistoric art covers Europe, the Mediterrean, and Western Asia from the Paleolithic period (Old Stone Age) about 30,000 years ago to approximately 2500 B.C.E. The most comprehensive representation of Paleolithic art ever published and a radical (and controversial) new way of interpreting it.
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Alexander brought from Greece his soldiers with Greek religious, ideas and the art, specifically the sculptures of Olympian gods.
The indigenous religion was Buddhism.
But the influence Greeks create a challenge, as Indians started to turn to the conquerors religion. As consequence, in an area called Gandhara, the Buddhists started creating their own sculptures.
But in the lack of a prior indigenous sculptural tradition, they imitate their Greek rivals. The result was an impressive Greek-influenced Buddhist sculptural design.
The Gandhara School or Greco-Buddhist School of art was inspired on Greco-Roman standards.
Gandhara Art shows the ancients Greeks influence by many ways:
Greek god as protection: Buddha is always under the protection of Hercules (Greek god)
The Artistic beauty: Buddha with the same appearance as Apollo (the god of the sun)
