A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.13

c13.13

The Brahmanical (including later Buddhist) art, as evolved during the seventh, eighth, and subsequent centuries, continues to this day. No clear line of demarcation can be drawn between mediaeval and modern sculpture, although, unfortunately, modern work of any considerable degree of excellence is very rare. This chapter, therefore, deals with both mediaeval and modern art as being essentially one, the outcome of the Brahmanical reaction by which Buddhism was slowly strangled.