History of art . Mahavellipore (viii Century). Bas-relief on the rock. imposed. The columns may be round or square orpolygonal, in sections or monolithic, smooth or fluted orcovered with carving that has an appearance of danger,like masses of reptiles moving in oily circles, like pus-tules that throb and rise, like bubbles bursting underleaves spread over a heavy water. There, as every-where in India, the infinitely little touches the infinitelybig. Whatever the power of these temples, they seemto have sprung from the earth through the power of INDIA 23 the seasons, and at the same time to hav
History of art . Mahavellipore (viii Century). Bas-relief on the rock. imposed. The columns may be round or square orpolygonal, in sections or monolithic, smooth or fluted orcovered with carving that has an appearance of danger,like masses of reptiles moving in oily circles, like pus-tules that throb and rise, like bubbles bursting underleaves spread over a heavy water. There, as every-where in India, the infinitely little touches the infinitelybig. Whatever the power of these temples, they seemto have sprung from the earth through the power of INDIA 23 the seasons, and at the same time to have been carvedout minutely hke an ivory Mahavellipore (viii Century). Monolithic temple. Bas-relief on a wall, detail. Forms are everywhere, tufted bas-reliefs are every-where, from the surroundings of the temples to theirsummit, on the inner walls, and often on the top of the M MEDIEVAL ART columns where the whole of humanity, mingled withthe whole of animal life, supports the burden of theentablatures and the roofs. Everything may serve tocarry a statue, everything may swell into a figure—thecapitals, the pediments, the columns, the upper stagesof the pyramids, the steps, the balustrades, the banis-ters of stairways. Formidable groups rise and fall—rearing horses, warriors, human beings in clusters likegrapes, eruptions of bodies piled one over the other,trunks and branches that are alive, crowds sculpturedby a single movement as if spouting from one has the impression that the old monolithic templehas been violently twirled and shot out of the in the more recent epochs when he modeledbronzes of
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