[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Mediaeval Sinhalese Art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908) › c19.46 # Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c19.46 Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c19.46 - **Language:** English ### [c19.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.46) with the interpretation of individuality. It would not be possible for many such personal individual pictures to be made; and one essential of religious art, is that there shall be a possibility of the work being done fairly well by average craftsmen. This does not at all rule out the genius, who has a greater, not a less, opportunity than has such a man nowadays who can only do good work, in conscious opposition to the spirit of the age. Furthermore, only great individual artists could depict the mental struggle adequately as such; but the concrete symbolism made it possible for average workmen at all times to produce a sufficient result; without preventing the great man from throwing all his genius into the expression of peace in the seated figure. - [Previous: c19.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.45) - [Next: c19.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.47) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.46) · Pramāṇa