Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.100
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.100
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v2.c77.100
**Use of Gold and other Metals**— Metals were widely used both in sculpture and painting. Gold, the metal par excellence, has been a hobby of the grand painters, because it trailed with itself the suggestion of power and grandeur, gleaming lustre and its disinclination to tarnish. Lavish use of gold in order not only to delineate the details of costume but also to make painting attractive has been time-honoured tradition through the ages.