A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.81
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.81
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c20.s1.81
The later pictures constantly display the effects of European example and teaching in ways more subtle than the selection of Christian subjects or the representation of people in European dress. The discreet use of shading to suggest an appearance of roundness, already noticed, may or may not be the result of study of European models. The development of landscape backgrounds, with a partial introduction of aerial and linear perspective, unquestionably is an imitation of Western exemplars.