[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) › c7.41 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.41 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.41 - **Language:** English ### [c7.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.41) From the latter half of the seventeenth century, during Aurangzîb's iconoclastic rule, the artist families, both Hindu and Muhammadan, which had enjoyed the enlightened patronage of the Mogul Court since the days of Babar, found themselves deprived of all State encouragement and denounced as infidels and heretics. The masterpieces of Indian sculpture and fresco-painting were mutilated and defaced on the ground that they offended against the precepts of the faith, and very few indeed have escaped the ruthless hands of Aurangzîb's fanatical followers. The painter and sculptor found their occupation gone, save in the few Hindu states which retained their independence; but even these were too much occupied in the struggle for liberty to devote much attention to the cultivation of the fine arts. - [Previous: c7.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.40) - [Next: c7.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.42) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.41) · Pramāṇa