[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 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Maurya pillars, Bharhut, Sanchi, Gandhara, Mathura, Gupta, medieval sculpture, Ceylon, Indo-Persian painting and minor arts; 5 colour plates, 381 illustrations. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [Vincent A. Smith](https://indike.org/pramana/person/smith-va) - **Extent:** 2,411 passages, 164,934 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press 1911; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Vincent A. Smith †1920); published before 1931: public… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c1) — 4 parts - [c2 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c2) — 6 parts - [c3 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c3) — 10 parts - [c4 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c4) — 2 parts - [c5 List of Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c5) — 20 parts - [c6 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c6) — 1 part - [c7 Chapter I. Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7) — 62 parts - [c8 Chapter II. The Hindu Styles of Architecture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8) — 183 parts - [c9 Chapter III. Sculpture of the Early Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c9) — 3 parts - [c10 Chapter IV. The Hellenistic Sculpture of Gandhāra](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c10) — 3 parts - [c11 Chapter V. Sculpture of the Kushān Period, Other than the Gandhāra School](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11) — 4 parts - [c12 Chapter VI. Sculpture of the Gupta Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c12) — 11 parts - [c13 Chapter VII. Mediaeval and Modern Sculpture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c13) — 25 parts - [c14 Chapter VIII. The Early Schools of Hindu Painting](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14) — 9 parts - [c15 Chapter IX. Hindu Painting, Mediaeval and Modern](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15) — 35 parts - [c16 Chapter X. Hindu Minor Arts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c16) — 10 parts - [c17 Chapter XI. The Foreign Influences on Hindu Art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17) — 72 parts - [c18 Chapter XII. The Indo-Muhammadan Styles of Architecture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18) — 119 parts - [c19 Chapter XIII. Indo-Muhammadan Decorative and Minor Arts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c19) — 10 parts - [c20 Chapter XIV. Indo-Persian or Mughal Painting](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c20) — 3 parts - [c21 Appendix. Collections of Indo-Persian Drawings and Paintings](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c21) — 28 parts - [c22 Addenda](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c22) — 12 parts - [c23 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c23) — 100 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) · Pramāṇa