[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) › c12.175 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.175 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.175 - **Language:** English ### [c12.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.175) But this last refuge will always be its surest stronghold; when art in Europe gets back to the villages the real Renaissance will have begun. In the villages of India the true artistic spirit still survives, and, if we and educated Indians would know what true Indian art is, we must go there, where the heart of India beats, where the voices of her dead myriads still are heard, and learn a lesson that neither London nor Paris can teach. A short time ago I drew attention, in a monograph on the stone-carving of Bengal,¹ to some modern architectural decoration, just as beautiful in feeling and execution as the carving of a medieval Gothic cathedral, done by Orissa sculptors, the direct descendants of those who built and sculptured the famous temple of the Sun-god, already referred to (p. 146). For the last twenty or thirty years some of them have been carving the decoration of a temple at Jajpur, the ancient capital of the province; their wages, fourpence a day, are being paid by a religious mendicant who has spent his whole life in begging for funds for this purpose. - [Previous: c12.174](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.174) - [Next: c12.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.176) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) ## Linked texts (1) - [Surya temple (ancient temple, baradari)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.monument.surya-temple-morena-district) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.175) · Pramāṇa