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Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.133

Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.133

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c7.133

Professor Grünwedel, however, goes much further than this, and elevates the Gandharan type on a pedestal as the model on which all later Buddhist as well as Brahmanical creations in art were based.² Here, I venture to think, he is confusing archæology and art, the assimilative power of a living, national art with artistic inspiration.