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[[Image:SerindianGroup.jpg|thumb|300px|"Heroic gesture of the [[Bodhisattva]]", 6th-7th century [[terracotta]], [[Tumxuk]], [[Xinjiang]], China]]

'''Serindian art''' is the art that developed from the 2nd through the 11th century C.E. in [[Serindia]] or [[Xinjiang]], the western region of China that was within the cultural sphere of [[Central Asia]] during the time.

It derives from the [[Greco-Buddhist art]] of the [[Gandhara]] district of what is now [[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]]. Gandharan sculpture combined Indian traditions with Greek influences. 

Modern researchers hypothesize that Buddhist missionaries travelling on the [[Silk Road]] introduced this artistic influence, along with [[Buddhism]] itself, into Serindia, resulting in a style that is a hybrid of Greek, Chinese and Persian.{{cn|date=December 2020}}

In modernity, Serindian art was rediscovered through the expeditions of [[Sir Aurel Stein]] in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century.
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==Gallery==
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Image:LoulanCarvedWoodenBeam.JPG|Carved wooden beam in Hellenistic style, 3rd-4th century 
Image:SerindianGroup2.JPG|Serindian group, 6th-7th century terracotta, [[Tumxuk|Tumshuq]] (Xinjiang)
Image:SerindianHead2.JPG|Head of a Serindian man, 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang)
Image:SerindiaHead.JPG|Head of a Serindian female [[Bodhisattva]], 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang)
Image:Serindian.JPG|Serindian head, 6th-7th century terracotta, Tumshuq (Xinjiang)
Image:BuddhaTumshuqXinjiang5thcentury.jpg|A Buddha statue from Tumshuq, Xinjiang. 5th century.
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==See also==
*[[Buddhist art]]
*[[Silk Road transmission of Buddhism]]

==References==
* [[Hopkirk, Peter]] (1980). ''Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia''. Amherst: The [[University of Massachusetts Press]]. {{ISBN|0-87023-435-8}}.

==External links==
*Francine Sliwka, [http://www.asianart.com/forum/serindia.html Two aspects of Serindian art: Serindia, where etymology and geography meet]
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