Buddhist artwork from Gandhara (Northwest Pakistan and Northeastern Afghanistan) appears influenced by Greek artistic methods, with Buddha and bodhisattva figures depicted with realistic naturalistic features and Greek-style drapery, leading early 20th-century French scholar Alfred Foucher to argue only Greek artists could produce such masterpieces

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Buddhist sculptures like these portray the Buddha or the bodhisatta mraa with real to life features wearing a robe resembling drapery seen in Greek sculptures... the French scholar Alfred fuche... saying all these technical details indicate in a striking manner the hand of an artist from some Greek Studio

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