[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) › c11.5 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.5 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.5 - **Language:** English ### [c11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c11.5) It is interesting to notice how, both in Europe and in Asia, such rude barbarians as the Mongols, who only revelled in rapine and bloodshed, and marked their progress with monuments of human skulls, were, just like other scavengers of civilisation—the Goths, Vandals, and Huns—the means of moving the intellectual waters and of bringing new inspiration into art. - [Previous: c11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c11.4) - [Next: c11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c11.6) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c11.5) · Pramāṇa