A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s7.7

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Works of art dedicated to the service of the Christian religion are necessarily rare in India. A wooden panel in the Roman Catholic Church at the old Danish settlement of Tranquebar, dating apparently from the seventeenth century or the early part of the eighteenth, evidently is the work of local carvers, copied from some old picture of the Descent from the Cross, which cannot be identified (Pl. LXXXI). Another panel preserved in a side room of the Protestant Church at the same settlement, which appears to have been built in 1718, represents the Last Supper in a German or Scandinavian style, and probably was imported ready made (Photo. No. 1205, Madras).³