HINDU ART
especially in view of the fact that the works of the Oriental medievals are not more "imperfect" in technique according to modern ideas than those of their Occidental fellow-artists.
The fundamental identity of artistic inspiration between the East and the West, allowing for the differences in schools and epochs in each, is incidentally borne out by coincidences in social life for which art work is responsible. Thus, the interior, nave and aisles of the Buddhist cave temples do not impress an observer with any feelings different from those evoked by the early Christian churches and Norman Cathedrals. The towers and contours of the twelfth century Romanesque Cathedral at Ely and the sixteenth century Gothic structure at Orleans have the ensemble of the gopoorams of
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