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Masterpieces of Oriental Art. 9: Some Indian sculpture at the Royal Academy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Dora Gordine
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The average quality of the sculpture at the Exhibition of the Art of India and Pakistan at the Royal Academy, London, is remarkably high. Naturally there is a bigger percentage of first-class pieces in bronze than in stone, because so much of the best stone sculpture is fixed in temples or carved on rock. The great Siva could not be moved from Elephanta nor a River Goddess from Ellora nor the Descent of the Ganges from the rock-face at Mamallapuram.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 79 , Issue 3-4 , January 1947 , pp. 139 - 141
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1947

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