South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c4.1

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The interest which has been recently evinced in the study of Indian Art in its aesthetic aspects has led to a closer enquiry and researches into the various indigenous Schools of Artists which have flourished from time to time in the Indian Continent—researches which have resulted in the discovery of clearly differentiated groups or Schools of Sculpture each characterized by qualities which represent aesthetic experiences of a novel character and yet related to one another by that idealism of form and conception which undoubtedly constitutes India’s contribution to the Art of the world.