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Guide to Ajanta Frescoes (Revised Edition)

1949

The members of the Society were at once impressed by the importance of the discovery and they addressed the Directors of the East India Company with a plea for the prservation of the Caves and the execution of copies of the frecoes. [...] )(From all these emanates a great joy in the surpassing radiance of the face of the world in the physical nobility of men and women in the strength and grace of animals and the livliness and purity of birds and flowers ; and woven into this fabric of material beauty we see the ordered pattern of the spiritual realities of the universe.) (It is this perfect combination of material and spiritua [...] This is demonstrated by the poses 3f the figures oy their limbs by their ornaments around the heads and the necks by their drapery and particularly the modality of the folds of the latter and this even by the perfect and faithful representation of the vessels and mirrors. [...] The design and expression of the face are exceptionally surprising the breadth of the technique the interpretation of the shape of the hand made to realistic pefection permit of a comparison with the two great artists of the Italian Renaissance ; the female figure which is on the 18right of the Lure of Buddha presents the same simplicity and skill. [...] Having seen that the present was the propitious time he decided to be born in the continent of Jambudvipa (India) in the country of Magadha (Behar) and of Maya the queen of Suddhodhana the head of the Sakyas.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147570
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
ii-v unknown view
History of the Ajanta Frescoes
1-3 unknown view
Notes on the Import of the Ajanta Paintings in the History of Art
4-23 unknown view
Jatakas and Scenes from the Life of the Master
24-42 unknown view
Plates
i-x unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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