A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.16
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.16
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Another medallion (Fig. 36) gives the Indian form of centaur, a conception familiar in variant shapes to Asiatic art from very remote times. A frieze on the coping pictures queer fish-tailed monsters, which recall many forms in Hellenistic art, and like them came from Western Asia (Fig. 37).