[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) › c7.93 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.93 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.93 - **Language:** English ### [c7.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.93) It is a wholly uninformed view of the divergence between the technical characteristics of European and Indian art to explain that Indian artists never learnt anatomy and drawing, for a thorough knowledge of artistic anatomy and the capacity to draw imitatively from nature are accomplishments within the power of very mediocre painters and sculptors, while Indian artists have frequently exhibited intellectual gifts of the rarest and highest order. - [Previous: c7.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.92) - [Next: c7.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.94) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.93) · Pramāṇa