Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.75

v2.c76.75

Now with this background I may proceed with the detailed account of the pictorial art as furnished by this notable treatise on the art of painting which I have, at many places, cited as an authoritative compendium of medieval architecture and if both the early and later parts of the madieval period of Indian History may be taken as the harbingers of a renaissance in the domain of art and literature, this treatise is certainly an epitome of that social upsurge which gave birth to stupendous works of art and architecture, the famous monuments, already noticed (cf. ‘Temple Architecture’) which are our pride.