Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.53

c7.53

From the seaports of her western and eastern coasts India at this time also sent streams of colonists, missionaries, and craftsmen all over Southern Asia, Ceylon, Siam, and far-distant Kambodia. Through China and Korea Indian art entered Japan about the middle of the sixth century. About a.d. 603 Indian colonists from Gujerat brought Indian art into Java, and at Bôrôbudûr in the eighth and ninth centuries Indian sculpture achieved its greatest triumphs. Some day, when European art criticism has widened its present narrow horizon, and learnt the foolishness of using the art-standards of Greece and Italy as a tape wherewith to measure and appraise the communings of Asia with the Universal and the Infinite, it will grant the nameless sculptors of Bôrôbudûr an honourable place among the greatest artists the world has ever known.