Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.84
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.84
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c12.84
The conspicuous failure of the great masters of the Renaissance to transform an oriental artist into a European one is only an illustration of that incompatibility between Eastern and Western ideas which has existed ever since the philosophical schools of Takshasila, Benares, Nalanda, and Sridhanya Kataka formulated the canons of Indian art; but where they failed we still fatuously hope to succeed, or, what is more foolish, believe we are doing so.