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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 40

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India there came to pass this thing: that,driven forth by an invasion, a famine, or a migrationof wild beasts, thousands of human beings moved tothe north or to the south. There at the shore of thesea, at the base of a mountain, they encountered agreat wall of granite. Then they all entered… … Ajanta (il Century B.C. to vi Century A.D.). Fresco, detail. 14 MEDIEVAL ART rock, its galleries hollowed out in every direction, itssculptured, chiseled walls, its natural or artificialpillars turned into a deep lacework with ten thousandhorrible or charming figures, gods without number andwithout…

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