[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) › c10.55 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.55 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.55 - **Language:** English ### [c10.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.55) The next illustration, one of the grandest examples of Indian sculpture extant, not only shows the versatility of Indian sculptors in the past, but points to one of the many potential opportunities which might be opened to their descendants in the present day, if Anglo-Indians, who persist in treating them as ignorant children, possessed the capacity of the Mogul craftsmen for understanding and utilising the extraordinary artistic resources of the land in which they live. For certainly, among all the commonplace statues of British Viceroys and Generals by European artists set up on the \*maidans\* of Calcutta and Bombay, there is not one to be placed in the same category as this. It would be as easy for us as it was for the Moguls if we, like them, had brought with us into India craftsmen practising a living tradition of art. But as our own national craftsmanship has been practically extirpated, we have only brought the bookman, the paper architect, and the eclectic or amateur artist, who find little beauty in Indian art and can do nothing with it but debase it. - [Previous: c10.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.54) - [Next: c10.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.56) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c10.55) · Pramāṇa