Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.16

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Indian art, to most of us, means only a pretty chintz, a rich brocade, or gorgeous carpet, fantastic carving, or curious inlay; and an ancient architecture, fascinating to the tourist and archæologist, with its reminiscences of bygone pomp and splendour, but generally regarded as an extinct art, useless for the needs of our prosaic and practical times.