A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s5.3

c15.s5.3

In the course of the subsequent discussion of Indo-Persian art emphasis will be laid upon the undoubtedly necessary inference that the Hindu artists, who quickly and successfully assimilated Persian teaching, must have had previous training upon Hindu lines. The practically total loss of all specimens of native Indian painting between Ajaṇṭā and Akbar precludes us from tracing the evolution and history of mediaeval indigenous art. We can only guess what that art may have been by studying the modified Indian art of Turkistan described in Section II of this chapter, and examining the character of the illustrations by Hindu artists in the books prepared for Akbar's library.