A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.31

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Who is right? Answers to that question presumably will continue to differ. So much, perhaps, may be conceded by all parties, that the newer criticism has succeeded in proving that the history of Indian sculpture after the third century of the Christian era is not uniformly 'written in decay', and that mediaeval art at its best possesses qualities entitling it to respectful consideration on artistic grounds. Opportunities for further discussion of the aesthetic merits of the mediaeval work will occur in subsequent chapters.