A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.72

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The foregoing select illustrations will, it is hoped, be considered sufficient to establish the claims of the Gupta sculpture of Northern India to favourable consideration on its merits as art. It is, as Mr. Marshall observes, endowed with ‘freshness and vitality’, while the designs are singularly refined and the technical execution of the best pieces is exquisite. The series may be closed with a delicately wrought figure of the Bodhisattva Manjusrī from Sārnāth (Fig. 122), bearing an inscription of the sixth or seventh century, which serves to mark the transition from Gupta to mediaeval art. Students who desire to pursue the subject farther will find more material in the publications noted below.²