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Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.91

Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.91

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c7.91

In all of them it is easy to recognise the human prototype, but the grim, shrivelled Yogi is here transformed into a spiritual being of a higher sphere—as an alchemist turns base metal into gold—a form more subtly made than human ever was, and wrapped in the ideal beauty of Divinity.