Gampola and Kandy Period Buddha Statues
Grade 12 · ART · Sri Lankan Sculpture
A Grade 12 Visual Arts resource exploring Buddha statues associated with the Gampola and Kandy periods of Sri Lankan art.
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"Gampola and Kandy Period Buddha Statues" is a lesson presentation for Grade 12 Art, filed under Sri Lankan Sculpture, prepared by Nilmini Jayasekara.
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Slides work best as revision after the lesson rather than instead of it: read the matching pages in the reading book first, then use these to check what you remember. For Grade 12 this is usually a single topic per file.
Buddha statues from the Gampola and Kandyan periods (roughly 14th-19th century) show a distinct local style: more ornate than earlier Sri Lankan sculpture, with elaborately carved thrones and canopies, decorative haloes, and increasingly stylised drapery, reflecting the influence of South Indian artistic contact during these periods.
The exam-relevant move is comparison: place a Gampola/Kandyan statue next to an earlier Anuradhapura or Polonnaruwa-period Buddha statue and describe what changed - increased ornamentation and a more decorative overall treatment being the main shift - rather than describing either period in isolation.
