"Universal art has succeeded in few materialization of the Divine as powerful and also as balanced. ... the greatest representation of the pantheistic god created by the hands of man.... Never have the overflowing sap of life, the pride of force superior to everything, the secret intoxication of the inner god of things been so serenely expressed.""The three countenances of the one being are here harmonized without a trace of effort. There are few material representations of the divine principle at once as powerful and as well balanced as this in the art of the whole world. Nay, more, here we have undoubtedly the grandest representation of the pantheistic God ever made by the hand of man .. .Indeed, never have the exuberant vigor of life, the tumult of universal joy expressing itself in ordered harmony, the pride of a power superior to any other, and the secret exaltation of the divinity immanent in all things found such serenely expressed.""
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Grousset, Rene, The civilizations of the East New York, London, A. A. Knopf, 1931-1935 Vol. II, p. 252 - 53 824Renou, Marie Simone. The India I love. Introd. by Jean Guehenno. Photos. by lean-Louis Nou. Translated from the French by Ruth WhIpple Fermaud New York, Tudor Pub. Co. [1969, c1968] p. 88-93
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