Which of the following is not true of art during the gupta period? a. many of the sculptures were carved out of a mountainside. b. murals were painted on prepared plaster surfaces, and colored with natural pigments. c. the indian people believed the buddha was reincarnated, so many of the paintings showed scenes from buddha’s past lives. d. the art combined hellenistic, persian, and native styles.

d. The art combined Hellenistic, Persian, and Native styles.

Explanation:

The Gupta Empire was one of the greatest political and military empires in the history of India. It was ruled by the Gupta dynasty between 320 and 550 AD. C. and occupied most of northern India and current East Pakistan and Bangladesh. Under this empire, there was a period of peace and prosperity that favored the development of Indian culture from an artistic, literary and scientific point of view.

The Gupta kings established an effective administrative system and a strong central power, allowing local autonomy in periods of peace. The society was ordered according to the beliefs of Hinduism with a rigid division in castes. At this stage, Hinduism acquires its main characteristics: the main divinities, religious practices and the importance of temples.

The two great centers of sculpture were Mathura and Gandhara, this one was a center of Greco-Buddhist art. Both exported their productions to other parts of northern India. Unlike the preceding Kushán Empire, there are no representations of monarchs, not even in the Gupta coins, except for some Western Satrap coins.

The most famous Gupta-style monuments that have survived, the caves of Ajantā, Elephanta and Ellora (Buddhist, Hindu, and mixed, respectively), come in fact from later dynasties but reflect the monumentality and balance of the Gupta style. Ajantá contains the most important paintings of the period, with a mature style that probably had a long development, especially in the palaces.

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