Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.34
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.34
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c10.34
The early Indian coinage also shows the most obvious portraiture;¹ but this is pure Græco-Roman art, untouched by Indian influence. Evidently Græco-Roman artisans at one time had almost a monopoly of some of the mints of Northern India; and this was, perhaps, the only craft in which Indians of that time were inferior to foreigners.