[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) › c8.56 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c8.56 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c8.56 - **Language:** English ### [c8.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.56) wards colonised Java and Kambodia. They are attributed to the last half of the second century A.D., so there is an interval of something like three centuries between them and the later Sanchi sculptures. It is quite evident that there must have been a great deal of Indian sculpture produced in the interval, but very little of it remains, no doubt for the same reason that nothing has been found before the time of Asoka, namely, because most of it was executed in wood. - [Previous: c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.54) - [Next: c8.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.57) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Sāñcī](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sanchi) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.56) · Pramāṇa