[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) › c7.273 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.273 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.273 - **Language:** English ### [c7.273](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.273) While, therefore, it is impossible to classify Buddhist and Hindu art into distinct schools only by reason of dogmatic differences, Buddhism was, in the essence of its teaching, more favourable to the development of the fine arts than orthodox Hinduism, and was always much more prolific in art-creation, for Buddhism was a protest against the tendency of the Brahmanical teaching of its day to draw all men away from the realities of life and of nature into the metaphysical atmosphere of spiritualistic speculation. - [Previous: c7.272](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.272) - [Next: c7.274](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.274) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.273](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.273) · Pramāṇa