Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.103

c7.103

Another archæologist, quoted by Leemans, has suggested that the Indian artist was so preoccupied by the great number of symbols of the Hindu cult that he did not permit himself to be raised to the highest levels of his art by an exact knowledge of the anatomy of the human body. It would be much more just to say that the Indian artist, rightly regarding a knowledge of anatomy as not an end in itself, had an intense feeling of the higher aims of art which sometimes led him to try and overleap its limitations—for Indian art has the defects of its qualities.