A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s5.40

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The next example selected for publication, Plate LXX, ranks much higher as a work of art and evidently is by another hand. It is, indeed, a well-composed and beautiful picture. The child demi-god and his adoring, yet tenderly watchful, mother, so placed in the centre as to rivet the attention of the beholder, are admirably drawn. The female attendants at the sides are perfectly true to nature and typical of Hindu womanhood. The perspective is unusually accurate, and there is no overcrowding. No doubt the original must have many beauties which cannot be seen in a photograph, but even in the reproduction the picture appears to me to be one of the best achievements of Hindu art.