The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c18.41

c18.41

It is almost miraculous that, in the wholesale destruction of works of the classic age of Indian art, which went on unchecked for centuries after the Muhammadan conquest, any of those which must have been once counted the most precious of them all should be amongst those which have suffered least from the blind fury of the iconoclast. But one sculpture like the Trimûrti of Elephanta and one painting like the Prince Siddhartha suffice to show that Indian artists may stand among the greatest of the world.