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

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In the bronze images of the fifteenth century
^and later we find a pronounced exaggeration of
the linear definition of the features. The parts
of the face are treated in a decorative rather than
\ a structural manner, so that the area between
\> the eye and eyebrow is modelled continuously
with the side of the nose [362]. This dry,
A decorative manner extends to the treatment of
the hands with fingers often of equal length,
and the stiff, formless bodies are set off by
meaningless Rococo swirls of drapery sometimes
heavily encrusted with gold relief in
363. Siva from Ayudhya.
kok. National Museum
imitation embroidery texture [363].
Siamese architecture in its development
exactly parallels what has been revealed by the
analysis of sculpture in the historical periods
we find, as is to be expected, a kind of Indian
colonial architecture in the early periods, succeeded
by structures, first in a purely Khmer,
362. Head of Buddha frorti^Ayudhya.
Bangkok, National Museum