Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.93

c12.93

Wonderfully harmonious are the contrasts of tone and colour—broadly and simply expressed—the blaze of the torch lighting up the path in front, throwing the horses and their riders into a warm relief of vivid colour between the darkness and the light; half-revealing, half-obscuring the glowing masses of the rocks behind, fringed by the dark edges of the forest. Through the gap between the hills the sky is seen faintly lighted by the moon, and with true poetic insight, the artist makes us feel the "gloom of gloom" and the stillness of the night.