Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.71

v2.c76.71

This tabulation of the topics will reveal that the text touches practically all the points pertaining to the technique and conventions employed in Indian pictorial art. Proportions of human figure, types of men, different varieties of hair and eyes, various poses of body, method of preparing the painting-canvases, the plastered wall, etc., conventions regarding the representations of gods, men, landscapes;, seasons etc., all these are some of the basic principles of this fine art which have been dealt with in a masterly manner in this treatise.