Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.54

c10.54

Java is so rich in beautiful types of Indian sculpture of this class that volumes again might be filled with them. But we must now return to India, the fountain-head, where the traditions of it are not yet entirely extinct, though the art of Bôrôbudûr and Prambanam was practically extirpated in Java by the conversion of the islanders to Islam about the fifteenth century.