Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c16.2
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c16.2
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c16.2
The clay-figurines of India occupy a respectable place in the domain of her artistic activity. The material is rich, of high antiquity, and covering a wide range of subjects, may also lay claim to some aesthetic quality. Right from the Indus Valley to our own times, clay-figurines have remained a constant feature of Indian art. The modeller's art long outlived that of the sculptor. The monumental brick temples of Bengal provide examples of moulded figurines and ornamental brick-work of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when stone sculpture altogether disappeared.