Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic
manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural
syncretism between the Classical Greek culture
and Buddhism, which developed over a period
of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between
the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th
century BCE, and the Islamic conquests of the
7th century CE. Under the Indo-Greeks and then
the Kushans, the interaction of Greek and
Buddhist culture flourished in the area of
Gandhara, in today's northern Pakistan, before
spreading further into India, influencing the art
of Mathura, and then the Hindu art of the Gupta
empire, which was to extend to the rest of South-
East Asia.