Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.37
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.37
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v2.c78.s2.37
“It is this question of proper choice of pigments that induces the artist to study that particular branch of knowlede in art-chemistry of colours—a result of great experience. Any way the fading of pictures by sheer age is inevitable and it is all the more hastened by dust, smoke and such other spoiling agencies. It is of this that Rājaśekhara speaks in his verse in the Bālabhārata when he refers to pictures being dimmed by time and smoke :