Pia Brancaccio, Ph.D. (1995) in Indian Art and Archaeology, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She has published extensively on Buddhist art and multicultural systems in ancient South Asia, with a special focus on Gandhara and the western regions of the Deccan plateau, including a book co-edited with Kurt Behrendt entitled Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art and Text (UBC Press, 2006).
'The title of this superb volume does not fully prepare the reader
for its broad scope of relevance well beyond the site of Aurangabad
for an understanding of Indian art, religious communities, and
socio-economic history spanning eight hundred years (...) Pia
Brancaccio not only provides a much-needed focused study, but she
also follows the ramifications of the issues that arise from her
examination of the site to lead the reader to international trade
communities in Africa, Buddhist pilgrimage routes in China, related
monasteries in Gandhara, and temples of the Pasupata sect of
Saivism, to name but a few.(...) When she takes the site at its own
terms, (...) Brancaccio meets the challenge and turns a bright
light onto some of the most difficult passages of India's art
history while offering cogent explanations to some of the toughest
problems in the field.'
Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, San Diego Museum of Art, CAA.REVIEWS, 2012
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