Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.62

c10.62

The art we see here is not the less great because it is not necessary to be a veterinary surgeon to see that there is a great deal in equine anatomy which this unknown sculptor has not cared to emphasise. As he had no modern *dilettante* critic to satisfy, he was free to make his statement of facts as simple and general as his artistic consciousness dictated, and to strike a note of epic grandeur hardly ever heard in any modern art.