 More than a hundred painters have become famous masters of the art, while the number of those who approach perfection, or of those who are middling, is very large. This is especially true of the Hindus; their pictures surpass our conception of things....  Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605 - Page 430by Vincent Arthur Smith - 1919 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - India - 1873 - 788 pages
...or of those who are middling, is very large. This is especially true of the Hindus :a their pittures surpass our conceptions of things. Few, indeed, in the whole world are found equal to them. Among the forerunners on the high road of art I may mention : 1. Mir Sayyid 'Ali of Tabriz.3 He learned... | |
 | Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - India - 1873 - 784 pages
...approach perfection, or of those who are middling, is very large. This is especially true of the Hindus :" their pictures surpass our conceptions of things. Few, indeed, in the whole world urt- found equal to them. Among the forerunners on the high road of art I may mention : 1. Mir Sayyid... | |
 | Henry Hardy Cole, William Tayler, South Kensington Museum - Art - 1874 - 412 pages
...perfection, or those who are middling, is very large. This is especially true of the 31238. E Hindus ; their pictures surpass our conceptions of things....indeed, in the whole world are found equal to them.* Among the forerunners on the high road I may mention — (1.) Mir Sayd Ali of Tabriz. He learned the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1915 - 672 pages
...has been seized on as a significant admission. ' Their pictures,' he says, 'surpass our conception of things. Few indeed in the whole world are found equal to them.' Now it is notoriously unsafe to build on literary references to art, unless we can control these by... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 666 pages
...has been seized on as a significant admission. ' Their pictures,' he says, ' surpass our conception of things. Few indeed in the whole world are found equal to them.' Now it is notoriously unsafe to build on literary references to art, unless we can control these by... | |
 | Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - Hindu civilization - 1922 - 498 pages
...Abul Fazal, the Mohammedan historian, says of Hindu painters: "Their pictures surpass our conception of things Few indeed in the whole world are found equal to them''" Even Mr Mill says: "The Hindus copy with great exactness T-/T ,nafe They draw P°rtraits ^h of individuals... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 660 pages
...has been seized on as a significant admission. ' Their pictures,' he says, ' surpass our conception of things. Few indeed in the whole world are found equal to them.' Now it is notoriously unsafe to build on literary references to art, unless we can control these by... | |
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