A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.5
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.5
- Language
- English
c13.5
The representation of ‘passionless restraint’, however true to Hindu nature, affords a strictly limited field for the exercise of the sculptor's powers, and there is necessarily much monotony in the images, whether of Buddha or other personages, which are devoted to the expression of the ascetic ideal.