Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.92

c7.92

The technical characteristics of all these examples are the same. The attenuated waist and a generalisation of the anatomy carried much further than the Greeks ever attempted, producing an extreme simplicity of form and contour, are part of a deliberate intention of suggesting a type of abstract, spiritual beauty, far removed from worldly passions and desires. At the same time the main anatomical structure relating to the mechanism of the human body is given with such perfect truth as to make it obvious that the artists were quite capable of imitating nature, when imitation was their only object.