[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) › c8.65 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c8.65 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c8.65 - **Language:** English ### [c8.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.65) The foreign elements in all the Amarâvati sculptures are not more conspicuous than those usually found in the art of any country which from its imperial position has become a centre of attraction for people of many and diverse nationalities. Nowhere do they justify the archæological assumption that Indian art at this period was in Græco-Roman leading-strings. If Indians were to apply to European art the same methods of exegesis as archæologists apply to Indian, it would be easy for them to leave Europe with hardly a shred of originality. - [Previous: c8.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.64) - [Next: c8.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.67) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c8.65) · Pramāṇa