AJANTA FRESCOES Plates BEING REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR AND MONOCHROME OF FRESCOES IN SOME OF THE CAVES AT AJANTA AFTER COPIES TAKEN IN THE YEARS 1909-1911 BY LADY HERRINGHAM AND HER ASSISTANTS WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS BY VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE INDIA SOCIETY HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY
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Herringham, Lady - Ajanta Frescoes-plates [1915] (91p)
.It is this perfect combination of material and spiritual energy which marks the great periods of art. In the copies here reproduced Lady Herringham and her able lieutenants have been successful, through their perception of this characteristic of the Ajanta paintings, in conveying a great deal of the passion and energy of the original forms.
"So true is the psychological character of these paintings, so remarkable the delineation of human and animal forms, so profound the spiritual portrayal of Indian life, that they may still serve today, in the absence of contemporaneous works of the kind, to represent the culture and character, rapidly changing though they now be, of the Indian peopl
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AJANTA FRESCOESPlates
BEINGREPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR AND MONOCHROME OF FRESCOES IN SOME OF
THE CAVES AT AJANTA AFTER COPIES TAKEN IN THE YEARS 1909-1911BY LADY HERRINGHAM AND HER ASSISTANTS
WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS BY VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE
INDIA SOCIETY
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSLONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY
A J A N T A FRESCOESBEING
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR AND MONOCHROME OF FRESCOES IN SOME OF THE CAVES AT AJANTA
AFTER COPIES TAKEN IN THE YEARS i 9 0 9 - 1 9 1 1
BY LADY HERRINGHAM AND HER ASSISTANTS
WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS BY VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE
INDIA SOCIETY
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO
MELBOURNE BOMBAY
1915
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