Mediaeval Sinhalese Art
Kandyan-period crafts: architecture, woodwork, painting, sculpture, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, with craft organisation, technical terms and śilpa texts; 150+ plates.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
- Extent
- 2,535 passages, 206,711 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Broad Campden: Essex House Press 1908; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Ananda K. Coomaraswamy †1947); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 8 parts
- c2 Mediæval Sinhalese Art — 7 parts
- c3 Foreword — 32 parts
- c4 Contents — 45 parts
- c5 List of Illustrations in the Text — 3 parts
- c6 Chapter I. The Sinhalese People — 80 parts
- c7 Chapter II. Social Economy of the Kandyan Sinhalese in the Eighteenth Century — 142 parts
- c8 Appendix to Chapter II — 2 parts
- c9 Chapter III. Particular Account of the Artificers — 38 parts
- c10 Appendix to Chapter III — 5 parts
- c11 Chapter IV. Elements of Sinhalese Design and Ornament — 25 parts
- c12 Appendix to Chapter IV.: The Rūpāvaliya — 2 parts
- c13 Chapter V. Architecture — 43 parts
- c14 Appendix to Chapter V. Māyāmataya — 40 parts
- c15 Chapter VI. Woodwork — 101 parts
- c16 Chapter VII. Stonework — 22 parts
- c17 Chapter VIII. Figure Sculpture — 18 parts
- c18 Appendix to Chapter VIII. Sāriputra — 24 parts
- c19 Chapter IX. Painting — 81 parts
- c20 Appendix to Chapter IX — 3 parts
- c21 Chapter X. Ivory, Bone, Horn, and Shell — 34 parts
- c22 Chapter XI. Metal Work: Iron, Brass, Copper and Bronze; Gold and Silver; Jewellery — 161 parts
- c23 Chapter XII. Lac-Work — 17 parts
- c24 Chapter XIII. Earthenware — 68 parts
- c25 Appendix to Chapter XIII. Potter's Song — 24 parts
- c26 Chapter XIV. Weaving — 24 parts
- c27 Chapter XV. Embroidery — 27 parts
- c28 Appendix to Chapter XV. Revival of Sinhalese Embroidery — 2 parts
- c29 Chapter XVI. Mat Weaving and Dyeing — 2 parts
- c30 Appendix to Chapter XVI — 2 parts
- c31 Chapter XVII. History of Sinhalese Art — 32 parts
- c32 Appendix to Chapter XVII. The Influence of Greek on Indian Art — 32 parts
- c33 Appendix I. The Kandy Art Association — 5 parts
- c34 Appendix II. Addenda et Corrigenda — 37 parts
- c35 Glossary and Index — 147 parts
- c36 Errata — 5 parts
- c37 Postscript — 4 parts
- c38 Description of Plates — 751 parts