Indian Sculpture c8.108

c8.108

The figures fill the roundel as far as they are volumes. Foreshortening and oversecting are subordinated to the scheme of interrelation of the figures. (See p. 19.) As far as the linear composition goes, it is not concentrical with the roundel. It falls into two main parabolic movements. One parabola leads along the sitting figures on the lower border and leaves the roundel on the left, at the back of the topmost seated figure in profile, and on the right, along the thighs of the kneeling woman, just behind the one on the armchair.