Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.82

c12.82

As a rule, there is very little evidence of European influence in Mogul painting. The Mogul artists sometimes made copies of European pictures when they were required to do so, but their own work does not show that they ever took any real interest in them. The endeavour to assimilate European ideas is nearly always disastrous to the oriental artist, on account of the opposition between his views of life and of Nature and those which govern Western art.