[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.s2.67 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.67 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.67 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.67) In the early works, like those of Sānchī and Bharhut, the absence of images of Buddha has the advantage of saving the stone pictures from the formal symmetrical arrangements grouped round the central figure which often weary by their monotonous iteration in Gandhāra and at Amarāvatī. - [Previous: c9.s2.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.66) - [Next: c9.s2.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.68) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9.s2.67) · Pramāṇa