Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.132
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.132
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c10.132
Of this secular art of the pre-Mogul times in India there are no examples extant, but from what we know of the religious sculpture of the same period and from the remarkable technical excellence of the best paintings of the Ajanta cave-temples we can fairly assume that the merit ascribed to it by Sanskrit writers was not overrated.