Nymph playing the Cymbals!!

Posted by Kaddy (Mumbai, India) on 16 January 2008 in Art & Design.

In A.D 1817, some tiger hunting British soldiers chanced upon a collection of caves in a horseshoe shaped ravine close to Aurangabad lying abandoned. This was when the art of Ajanta was exposed to the enthralled world. Started in the second century B.C. and given up some time in the seventh centruy A.D. this complex of 29 chaitya and vihara caves were chiselled into live rock and are host to some of the best preserved paintings and sculptures of the Gupta period. Most of these masterpieces appear to have been a part of a continuous narrative done within a narrow band along the walls of the caves.

However the later paintings covered up the entire surface area of the walls, though still forming a part of a narrative.

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