Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.129
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.129
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c10.129
The story will recall analogous ones told of the ancient Greek artists and their skill in imitative painting. A very similar one is told of the first Chinese painter known to history, Tsao Fuh-hing, employed in the court of the Emperor Sun K’uan in the third century a.d. In this case a fly was so skilfully imitated in a painting that the Emperor himself raised his hand to brush it off.¹