[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908) › c7.182 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.182 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.182 - **Language:** English ### [c7.182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.182) The female type is also taken by Indian artists to personify divine fury and destructive energy, in the form of Durgâ, the fighting goddess who wars against demons and spirits of evil, and Kâlî, mother of all the gods and the great destroyer of the universe. The latter, in modern Hindu art, is a hideous, vulgar conception, altogether unworthy of the noble artistic traditions of earlier times. - [Previous: c7.181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.181) - [Next: c7.183](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.183) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.182) · Pramāṇa