The origins of Buddhist art will be on display with the Metropolitan Museum of Art”™s new exhibition “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE”“400 CE.”
Opening on July 21 and running through Nov. 13 in the museum”™s Gallery 999, this presentation encompasses more than 140 objects that display the evocative and interlocking themes of the pre-Buddhist origins of India”™s figurative sculpture and the early narrative traditions that were central to this formative moment in early Indian art.
The exhibition showcases objects in various media, including limestone sculptures, gold, silver, bronze, rock crystal, and ivory. Highlights include spectacular sculptures from southern India””newly discovered and never-before publicly exhibited masterpieces””that add to the world canon of early Buddhist art.
More information is available on the museum”™s website.
