Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c6.75

c6.75

Even accepting the situation, we find that most injury is done to art through the departmental notions of architecture prevailing.† A majority of official buildings are ugly, and all are unrelated to the national style of art and architecture. Even in the few cases where an effort has been made to build in the style of the country, the result has been a fiasco; the Ruvanvẹli ambalam for instance, is merely a contractor’s structure masquerading as a Kandyan building.‡