Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.79

c10.79

Indian *fresco buono*, when the wall is a suitable one, is an exceedingly permanent process for interior decoration, and much more durable in a tropical climate than oil-painting. But as it was largely used in exposed situations, or in buildings which were not themselves of a permanent nature, very few of the early Indian fresco-paintings have survived except those in the Ajanta cave-temples, the earliest of which are said to date from the second or first centuries before Christ, and a few similar ones in Ceylon.