A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s1.42
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s1.42
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the high value of the Gandhāra sculptures as documents of religious and social history, but detailed discussion of them from that point of view is foreign to the purpose of this work, which is concerned only with their worth as expressions of artistic power and technical skill. General observations on the merits and demerits of the sculptures as fine art will be deferred more conveniently until a selection of representative specimens of the best statues and reliefs shall have been reviewed.