History of art . 22 MEDL^VAL ART and their desires, to build thesecarve them from top to bottom, titanic platforms,cover them withstatues as dense as the lives of the jungle, and supportthem in space on the aerial festoon of the lacelikeogives and the inextricable scaffolding of the are statues upon statues, colonnades upon colon-nades; thirty styles are mingled, juxtaposed, super- ^^ ^^^M^. 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 ap
History of art . 22 MEDL^VAL ART and their desires, to build thesecarve them from top to bottom, titanic platforms,cover them withstatues as dense as the lives of the jungle, and supportthem in space on the aerial festoon of the lacelikeogives and the inextricable scaffolding of the are statues upon statues, colonnades upon colon-nades; thirty styles are mingled, juxtaposed, super- ^^ ^^^M^. 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 sculpture.
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