[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) › c3.4 # Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c3.4 Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c3.4 - **Language:** English ### [c3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c3.4) It was the art of a poor people, the annual income of whose kings did not in the eighteenth century exceed £2000 in money, beside revenue in kind. It was very different from the sumptuary art of the great courts and wealthy cities of India, of which we trace but a faint reflection here and there in the use of Indian materials, and the importation of Indian craftsmen. But it is the only true art discoverable in Ceylon to-day. In a few years it may be gone for ever, I have tried to make a picture of it, before it was too late. - [Previous: c3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c3.3) - [Next: c3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c3.5) - [Up: c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c3.4) · Pramāṇa