A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.63
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.63
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All the Sānchī sculptures, like the Ajaṇṭā paintings, deal with Buddhist subjects. If a composition seems in our eyes to be purely secular, that is only because we do not understand its meaning. Genre pictures, whether in paint or bas-relief, do not exist in the ancient art of India. The main object of the artist was to illustrate his Bible, and if, perchance, the illustration could be made into a pretty picture, so much the better; but anyhow, the sacred story must be told.