Serene Granite head
Location
Low Street in a flower border next to Forbes Court
New Pitsligo, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire
Date
Not known
Description
A much larger than life size carving of a head in granite that is strongly reminiscent of ancient Greco-Buddhist art of Northern India particularly the 1st -2nd century Buddha heads of Gandhara (a kingdom in what is now part of Pakistan and Afghanistan). These in turn owing their iconography to ancient Greek representations of Apollo.
Era
2000s
Categories
Iconography
- human face or head
- part of human body
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
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