A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.26

c15.26

The ancient Indian artists, like Cellini and the other great craftsmen of the Renaissance, were able to turn from one material to another without difficulty, and to work with equal success as painters, sculptors, or bronze founders. Similar versatility was displayed by the Bhilsā ivory carvers, who executed some of the stone reliefs at Sānchī, and by the earlier craftsmen of the Maurya age, who readily applied to stone the skill previously acquired in working materials of a less permanent kind.