A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.7
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.7
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c15.7
Tāranāth's Chapter XXIV, entitled 'The Mode of Origin of Image-Making', professes to record a summary history of Indian Buddhist art, plastic and pictorial, from the earliest times to the author's day.² He treats of painting, sculpture, and bronze-casting together, apparently assuming the high antiquity of all the three arts as dating even from the remote age prior to 'the disappearance of the Teacher', that is to say, 500 B. C. in round numbers. He specially alludes to the superlative excellence of the earliest wall-paintings, which he ascribes to the gods, and declares that after the death of Buddha equally good work continued to be produced for several hundred years.