[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c9.s2.16 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.16) 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). - [Previous: c9.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.15) - [Next: c9.s2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.17) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.16) · Pramāṇa