A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s1.43
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s1.43
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'here Indian sculptors have shown that they can express with as much fire and passion as the greatest European art the pride of victory and the glory of triumphant warfare; for not even the Homeric grandeur of the Elgin marbles surpasses the magnificent movement and modelling of this Indian Achilles, and the superbly monumental horse in its massive strength and vigour is not unworthy of comparison with Verrocchio's famous masterpiece at Venice'.