Viśvakarma : Examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft / First series, one hundred examples of Indian sculpture ..
A 1914 London publication from Luzac by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, a photographic survey of Indian sculpture in one hundred plates, aimed at scholars and collectors of Indian art. The plates are sepia photographs of stone and bronze figures, with one carved panel showing dense relief and a seated Buddha in a halo showing a calm frontal pose and clear modelling of the body. A designer could take from them the strong frontal symmetry, the halo and lotus-seat framing, and the raking light that brings out carved texture.
