Indian Sculpture c8.229

c8.229

Next to the gate the stables are indicated. In the part of the relief reproduced here only the stable of the horses is shown. The animals are tied to posts with standards, and grooms attend to them. Pointed angularity of limbs, or else concave curves (legs of standing figures and compositional curve of leg of horse with bent head, continued by the leg of the prancing horse, the parallels to this concave rhythm, such as that of the bridle and the completion of this device by the concave line in the opposite sense), thin the plastic context, and bring about a linear composition as clear as it is subtle.