COLUMN ART

(PERSION AND ASHOKAN COLUMN)

Group 3
-Tenzin
-Rujal
-Niralaxmi
 Persian column

Persian columns are the distinctive

form of column developed in
the Achaemenid architecture of
ancient Persia, probably beginning
shortly before 500 BCE. They are
mainly known from Persepolis, where
the massive main columns have a
base, fluted shaft, and a double-
animal capital, most with bulls.
Achaemenid palaces had
enormous hypostyle halls called apadana,
which were supported inside by several
rows of columns. The Throne Hall or "Hall
of a Hundred Columns" at Persepolis,
measuring 70 × 70 meters was built by
the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes. The
apadana hall is even larger. These often
included a throne for the king and were
used for grand ceremonial assemblies; the
largest at Persepolis and Susa could fit ten
thousand people at a time.
 Ashokan Column

The pillars of Ashoka are a series of

monolithic columns dispersed
throughout the Indian subcontinent,
erected or at least inscribed
with edicts by the 3rd Mauryan
Emperor Ashoka the Great who
was 72 years old during his reign
from c. 268 to 232 BCE.
In both Buddhism and Hinduism, the
pillar symbolized the axis mundi. The
pillars and edicts represent the first
physical evidence of the Buddhist
faith. The inscriptions assert Ashoka's
Buddhism and support his desire to
spread the dharma throughout his
kingdom.