Head from an image of the Buddha, 11th-12th C CE

Head from an image of the Buddha, 11th-12th century CE, now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. From the sculpture's description on [artsmia.org](www.artsmia.org): 'In what was...one of the wealthiest cities and greatest religious centers of the entire world, ancient Pagan (1044–1287 CE) in central Myanmar (Burma), more than 2,000 Buddhist monuments remain scattered across the arid plain. The largely abandoned brick stupas (reliquary buildings) and temples were once lavishly decorated with multicolored stucco (plaster) molding and sculpture... This sensitively modeled Buddha head reflects the meditative calm and somewhat sweet, humanistic quality associated with art of the neighboring Pala dynasty of Bengal, India. Its Buddhist sculptural traditions had reached Pagan by about 1000 CE through the portable mediums of bronze and terracotta.' [More information here](https://collections.artsmia.org/art/28038/head-from-an-image-of-the-buddha-myanmar)