The paintings in the Buddhist cave-temples of Ajantâ, Khandesh, India (1896)
Griffiths, John · London · leaf 10
received light, and by painting when it ventional treatment of the large and small lotus, followed by two bands was in shade. In one of these panels (fig. 86) is painted an excellent of purely conventional ornament, and another of lotus flowers, with a representation of two bulls, with large… … te PLATES 118 & 119.—These examples are similar in their general arrangement to that in Plate 117, but the details are different in design. The flying figures which occur in the spandrils of the drawings in Plate 118 may be intended to represent Indra and his consort Shachi, From Roman Mosatc. or…
Painting · Buddhist temples · Cave temples · Decoration and ornament · Painting -- India -- Ajanta · Decoration and ornament -- India -- Ajanta
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