Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.20

c7.20

The first of these hypotheses implies an intellectual anomaly almost unparalleled in the whole of art-history. If we except those countries and epochs in which Muhammadan rulers enforced the strict letter of their religious law which forbade the representation of animate nature in art, there is no instance of any nation producing great schools of architecture which has been without corresponding schools of sculpture or painting.