[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908) › c10.15 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.15 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.15 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.15) Dr. Groneman says of some of the Prambanam sculptures that they approach near to Greek art in truth and beauty, and are far above what he has seen in other Hindu temples in Java, Ceylon, or India. Sir Stamford Raffles, the British governor of Java from 1811 to 1816, says of Prambanam : “In the whole course of my life I have never met with such stupendous and finished specimens of human labour, and of the science and taste of ‘ages long since forgot,’ crowded together in so small a compass as in this little spot.”¹ But the material for enabling those who have not visited the island to appreciate these splendid sculptures is at present very scanty. Java affords an almost unlimited field for artistic research. To describe adequately the sculptures of Bôrôbudûr and Prambanam would require many volumes, and my present purpose is fulfilled with the illustrations already given.¹ - [Previous: c10.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.14) - [Next: c10.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.16) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.15) · Pramāṇa