South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.118

c8.118

The peculiar gestures suggested by these *vangas* or inflexions of the body form a special characteristic of South Indian sculpture and remind one of the ‘sway’ of the figures of some of the mediæval Madonnas. The graciousness of the pose of the figures in Plates (I, XV, XVI) lends a vitality to the conceptions and a peculiar artistic values to this school of sculpture. There is nothing perhaps, in Indian sculpture, excepting a few examples of the Nepalese Buddhist figures, which could approach the South Indian bronze figures in the easy grace of their peculiar gestures.