[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) › c12.174 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.174 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.174 - **Language:** English ### [c12.174](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.174) For this is Indian art—spurious and make-believe, like our official architecture—with all the virtue, all the spirituality, all the love and worship, all that has made it great and true in the past, taken out of it. Indian art was born in the pilgrim's camp and nurtured by the highest spiritual ideals; it can never thrive in the sickly, artificial atmosphere of the European drawing-room. We have driven it from the great cities of India, it has no part in our civic life, and its last refuge is now in the villages and towns remote from European influence. - [Previous: c12.173](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.173) - [Next: c12.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.175) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.174](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.174) · Pramāṇa