湿婆族首领 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	湿婆族首领
品名（英）	Head of Shiva
入馆年号	2014年，2014.686
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 450 - 公元 650
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	高 4 3/4 英寸 (12 厘米); 宽 3 1/2 英寸 (8.9 厘米); 深 3 3/8 英寸 (8.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	湿婆的头像有力地证明了6世纪婆罗门雕塑的雕塑和概念复杂性，当时印度北部的笈多时期末期正在进行新的实验。面容严肃的湿婆留着小胡子，他的头发辫子被拉到头上，捆绑起来，让双圈落下，这是犍陀罗菩萨意象的直接下降。这种独特的头发处理可以通过前几个世纪的西北艺术追溯到希腊化模型，正如阿波罗图像中最为例证的那样。在这个早期，湿婆的长发辫已经装饰着，就像右上角一样，有一个新月，湿婆的月亮象征。他的另一个关键标识符，额头眼，可以直接在构成他额头的辫子的分开下方检测到。这个湿婆头像的美学可以追溯到4至5世纪的古普塔时代的砂岩雕塑，这些雕塑产自马图拉和印度北部的其他地方。
介绍（英）	The Head of Shiva is powerful testimony to the sculptural and conceptual sophistication of Brahmanical sculpture in the 6th century, at the close the Gupta period in northern India, a moment when new experimentation was underway. The stern-faced Shiva is moustached and his braids of hair are drawn up on his head, bound and allowed to fall in a double loop, a rendering directly descended from Gandharan bodhisattva imagery. This distinctive hair treatment can be traced via the northwest art of preceding centuries to Hellenistic models, as most exemplified in Apollo imagery. Already at this early date Shiva’s dreadlocks are adorned, as here on the upper right, with a crescent moon, Shiva’s lunar symbol. His other key identifier, the forehead eye, can be detected directly beneath the parting of the braids framing his forehead. The aesthetics of this Shiva head can be traced to 4th–5th century Gupta-era sandstone sculptures produced at Mathura and elsewhere in northern India.