Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.152

c12.152

The illustrations of some of the masterpieces of that great epoch of religious art, and the explanation given, have been, I hope, sufficient to show that the ideals thus realised were not, as archæologists aver, the result of the feeble efforts of undeveloped powers to imitate the degenerate types of the Hellenic school, but original, imaginative creations which, rightly understood, are worthy to rank with the noblest artistic creations of the West.