A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.74

c8.74

In the modern temples of Northern India the tendency is to reduce the curvature of the steeple, and to make the form approximate to that of an English slender spire. The effect is sometimes pleasing, but lacking in the massive dignity of the best designs at Bhuvanesvar and Khajurāho. The contemptible sculptured and painted decorations of the modern buildings testify plainly to the general lack of artistic feeling.