Mediaeval Sinhalese Art

This book on Mediaeval Sinhalese Art is a record of the work and the life of the craftsman in a feudal society not unlike that of Early Mediaeval Europe. It deals, not with a period of great attainment in fine art, but with a beautiful and dignified scheme of peasant decoration, based upon the traditions of Indian art and craft. Sinhalese art is essentially Indian, but possesses this special interest, that it is in many ways of an earlier character, and more truly Hindu - though Buddhist in intention, - than any Indian art surviving on the mainland so late as the beginning of the nineteenth century. Mediaeval conditions survived in full force until the British occupation of Kandy in 1815, and what is actually described in this book is the work of Sinhalese craftsmen under mediaeval conditions, mainly as these survived in the eighteenth century, and, in a less degree, even to the present day..

ISBN: 8121510929
Author: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K
Published by: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd
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