Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.21

c9.21

The study of these sculptures should be approached, not with the stale copy-book rules with which the average educated European often tries to prove the inferiority of Indian art and his own superior discernment, but with an appreciation of the purpose for which they were intended, and an honest endeavour to comprehend, as Taine would say, the soul of the people to whom they were addressed.