A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Maurya pillars, Bharhut, Sanchi, Gandhara, Mathura, Gupta, medieval sculpture, Ceylon, Indo-Persian painting and minor arts; 5 colour plates, 381 illustrations.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Vincent A. Smith
- Extent
- 2,411 passages, 164,934 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press 1911; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Vincent A. Smith †1920); published before 1931: public…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 4 parts
- c2 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon — 6 parts
- c3 Preface — 10 parts
- c4 Contents — 2 parts
- c5 List of Illustrations — 20 parts
- c6 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c7 Chapter I. Introduction — 62 parts
- c8 Chapter II. The Hindu Styles of Architecture — 183 parts
- c9 Chapter III. Sculpture of the Early Period — 3 parts
- c10 Chapter IV. The Hellenistic Sculpture of Gandhāra — 3 parts
- c11 Chapter V. Sculpture of the Kushān Period, Other than the Gandhāra School — 4 parts
- c12 Chapter VI. Sculpture of the Gupta Period — 11 parts
- c13 Chapter VII. Mediaeval and Modern Sculpture — 25 parts
- c14 Chapter VIII. The Early Schools of Hindu Painting — 9 parts
- c15 Chapter IX. Hindu Painting, Mediaeval and Modern — 35 parts
- c16 Chapter X. Hindu Minor Arts — 10 parts
- c17 Chapter XI. The Foreign Influences on Hindu Art — 72 parts
- c18 Chapter XII. The Indo-Muhammadan Styles of Architecture — 119 parts
- c19 Chapter XIII. Indo-Muhammadan Decorative and Minor Arts — 10 parts
- c20 Chapter XIV. Indo-Persian or Mughal Painting — 3 parts
- c21 Appendix. Collections of Indo-Persian Drawings and Paintings — 28 parts
- c22 Addenda — 12 parts
- c23 Index — 100 parts