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CARC launches new Gandhara Connections project thanks to support of the

Bagri Foundation and Neil Kreitman Foundation


The Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University has launched a new project to

advance and support the understanding of ancient Gandharan art and its links with the

Graeco-Roman world. The project has its origins in an exploratory workshop held by

CARC in 2013. Thanks to the support of the Bagri Foundation and the Neil Kreitman

Foundation, the Centre will now be able to hold international workshops and other

public events over the next three years, to produce open access publications

representing the latest thinking about Gandharan art, and to develop a variety of

online resources for anyone interested in the subject. These will be available through

a new microsite: www.carc.ox.ac.uk/GandharaConnections

The Buddhist art of Gandhara, in what is now roughly northern Pakistan, has attracted

intense interest since the nineteenth century, particularly because of its largely

unexplained affinities with the the art of Greece and Roman, thousands of kilometers

to the west, as well as other traditions of the Indian Subcontinent and the 'Silk Road'

regions. The Gandhara Connections project will focus especially on this theme, as

well as unresolved questions around the chronology and local geography of

Gandharan sculpture.

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