A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s3.1

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The productions of the Gandhāra school, good, bad, and indifferent, are so numerous that it would be easy to fill the whole of this volume with interesting illustrations of them, without exhausting the material available; but it is hoped that the reproductions in this chapter may be considered sufficient to give an adequate notion of the best work of the school, and to indicate the steps in the process of gradual Indianization of the style. Students who desire to follow out in detail the evolution of the Buddha type, or any of the many other fascinating problems suggested by these strangely composite works—so Greek or Graeco-Roman from one point of view, and so Indian from another—will find abundant material for reflection and discussion in the collections of numerous museums and the publications devoted to the exposition of different aspects of the many-sided subject.