Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.19

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These reliefs give one hundred and twenty scenes from the life of Buddha, and a similar number from the *jâtakas*—the legends of his previous births. The execution of such a vast work naturally occupied many generations, and obviously they belong to different periods and indicate many different degrees of artistic perfection. The six reproductions given in Plates XXXIII. to XXXVIII. will, however, show the extraordinary beauty of the best of them. They are from a splendid set of photographs made in 1872 for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences by Mr. J. van Kinsbergen.