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Ajanta

(əjŭn`tə), village, Maharashtra state, W central India, in the Ajanta Hills. The famous Ajanta caves, discovered in 1819, contain remarkable examples of Buddhist art. The caves, carved out of the side of a steep ravine, consist of chapels and monasteries dating from c.200 B.C.–A.D. 650 with magnificent frescoes and sculpture depicting scenes from the life of Buddha.

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Indeed, such has always been the celebrity of these 5th-century masterworks that most scholars, and almost all modern accounts of the Ajanta caves, have more or less ignored the earlier ist-2nd century BCE caves and their picture cycles.

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From the early twentieth century, many Indian artists resisted the sway of oil painting as a colonial imposition, favoring water-based paints, which have a venerable pedigree in India going back to the ancient frescoes of the Ajanta caves. In Bengal, pioneers including Rabindranath Tagore, Benode Behari Mukherjee, and Nandalal Bose chose to work principally in watercolor, tempera, and ink, aligning themselves with not only the painters of Ajanta but also local vernacular artists as well as contemporaries in China and Japan, conferring a political weight on the choice of water-based colors that is partly responsible for keeping the practice surprisingly fresh and experimental in India.

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For this year's event, the ever energetic Sam Fogg, for instance, offers--in association with Rob Dean Art--a recently discovered group of 70 original watercolours illustrating the mural paintings in the Ajanta Caves, the oldest surviving mural paintings in India which date from the 1st century AD to around 480.

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This omission of Mughal portraits seems not to have been motivated by a desire to treat painting ami sculpture separately, as she does include an example of painting (from the Ajanta caves) in her section on "Queens and Princesses" (pp.

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The title "Ajanta" refers to the 29 Ajanta caves in India, which hold vast murals created by "painter-monks" representing stories from the life of Buddha (Rukeyser 1996, 153).

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The Ajanta Caves by Benoy K Behl, Thames and Hudson, hb, pp256, 24.95 [pounds sterling]