Chap. VII The Fine Arts
Music, its early cultivation 470
Harsh character of Singhalese music 470
Tom-toms, their variety and antiquity 471
Singhalese gamut 472
Painting.—Imagination discouraged 472
Similarity of Singhalese to Egyptian art 472
Rigid rules for religious design 473
Similar trammels on art in Modern Greece (note) 473
And in Italy in the 15th century (n.) 474
Celebrated Singhalese painters 475
Sculpture.—Statues of Buddha 475
Built statues 477
Painted statues 477
Statues formed of gems 477
Ivory and sandal-wood carved 477
Architecture, its ruins exclusively religious 478
Domestic architecture mean at all times 478
Stone quarried by wedges 478
Immense slabs thus prepared 479
Columns at Anarajapoora 479
Materials for building 479
Mode of constructing a dagoba 480
Enormous dimensions of these structures 480
Monasteries and wiharas 481
Palaces 482
Carvings in stone 483
Ubiquity of the honours shown to goose 484
Delicate outline of Singhalese carvings 488
Temples and their decorations 488
Cave temples of Ceylon 489
The Alu-wihara 489
Moulding in plaster 489
Claim of the Singhalese to the invention of oil painting 490
Lacquer ware of the present day 490
Honey-suckle ornament 491