A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s3.22
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s3.22
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has a good share of 'restrained dignity'; and many of the Buddhas are quite equal to any of the Javanese or Ceylonese images. Much credit is given by the new school of critics to the achievements of mediaeval sculptors in the representation of gesture and strenuous action; but, without depreciating their work, it is permissible to insist on the similar merits of the Gandhāran heads and Atlantes (*ante*, p. 100; *post*, Chap. XI).