A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.23

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So far as I am aware, the three specimens now illustrated in Figs. 159, 160, 161 are the first to be published illustrating these beautiful reliefs. The image of Siva performing the Tāṇḍava dance (Fig. 159) should be compared with the bronze representations of the same subject as illustrated and explained in later sections of this chapter. The extra arms are so cleverly managed as to be hardly noticeable. The next illustration (Fig. 160) of Siva caressing Pārvatī is curious. In the third example (Fig. 161) the treatment of Siva's image reminds me of the best Javanese work, and I am not sure that it may not be superior to that. The whole figure, body, limbs, and head, is modelled with exceptional skill, and the expression of the face is pleasing. This group, in my judgement, is one of the