A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s3.5
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s3.5
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Similarly, we find Basāwan (*ante*, p. 470, Plate CXVII) arranging his substitute for perspective in a different fashion, after the manner of the old Hindu bas-reliefs; and, in order to understand his meaning, we have to imagine that objects, such as people and trees, laid down at length in the picture are set up on their feet. When we mentally view them as so set up, they come into proper relation one to the other. The Indo-Persian pictures, if closely studied for the purpose, would be found to use several methods for the expression of distance—Indian, Chinese, and European.