[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) › c10.2 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.2 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.2 - **Language:** English ### [c10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.2) THE Bôrôbudûr sculptures are in some respects unique, both in the perfection of their art and in the good fortune which has preserved them from wanton destruction. The obscurity into which the great monument has fallen has been, perhaps, its best protection, and saved it from the fate of so many other masterpieces of Indian art. No fanatics, either European or native, have laid sacrilegious hands upon it; no enterprising builders have made use of it for a quarry, or converted its stones into lime; no railway contractors or energetic public works officers have broken its splendid sculptures for ballast or for road-mending. What it has suffered has been from natural causes, the destructive influences of the tropical climate, from earthquake or from mere neglect. - [Previous: c9.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c9.76) - [Next: c10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.3) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.2) · Pramāṇa