South Asia: Pala Sculpture and Painting
Artist: unknown
Title: Pala manuscripts covers
Material: wood with water-based pigments
Site: Nalanda
Current Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Period/Date: Nayapala year 14 (ca. 1052 C.E.)
Iconography/Iconology: Prajnaparamita (lower), detail of a female bodhisattva
attending Prajnaparamita.
Stylistic Comments: The flat color and oval aura are characteristic
of the
Nalanda school, note in particular, the meticulous detail of the drawing.
Note the immediate previous figure, Mamaki, the prajna of Aksobhya is lacking
in our photographs of the set.
