Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 62
s heatthat for centuries it forced Islam to submit to its genius,to cover the walls of its mosques with living arabesques—lotus, flowering vines, figures of men and of monsters.The Greek statue, hastily imitated by the first sculp- INDIA 35 tors, was forgotten as quickly as it had become known.The… … Indo-Mussulman Art (xvii Century). The Taj-Mahal of Agra. reason of the Greeks, India was to manifest its ownpower through the wandering smile of the mouths,through the smothered flame, the enervation, and theascetic thinness of the bodies. When northern Indiacarried its religion into the south, it…
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