The art and architecture of India - Buddhist, Hindu, Jain (Art Ebook)

!06 • THE
EARLY CLASSIC PERIODS
to the beauties of the wilderness for its own
sake. Nature for the Indian was essentially a
combination of constantly menacing, even
dangerous, forces. There was nothing lovable
about the jungle, nor the succession of scorching
heat and torrential rains and inundations,
that could produce an Indian Claude or even a
Salvator Rosa. Just as the anthropomorphic
personification of every natural force in Greece
militated against the development of an Hellenic
school of landscape painting, so in India the
Dravidian tradition of personifying every ele-
50. Copper lota from Kundlah
London, British Museum