The beginnings of Buddhist art : and other essays in Indian and Central-Asian archeology
A 1917 scholarly survey by the French archaeologist Alfred Foucher, published in Paris, on early Buddhist art and Indian and Central Asian antiquities, aimed at art historians and students. Its plates are photographs of carved stone reliefs and stelae: Borobudur panels from Java with captions naming Rudrayana episodes, a rock-cut relief from the Konkan, and a Gandhara stele with a seated Buddha under an arched frame, offering designers dense narrative friezes, tightly packed figure groupings, and the calm, rounded forms of early Buddhist sculpture.
