A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.16
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.16
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The long-continued neglect of these precious remains by the Government of H.H. the Nizam offers a painful contrast to the vigorous and effective action taken by the Government of Ceylon to preserve the fifth-century paintings at Sīgiriya which will be described in due course. At Ajaṇṭā the result of neglect and wilful injury is that the existing paintings are only a small fraction of those visible in 1819, when the caves were first brought to notice. Nevertheless, in spite of all mischances, enough either remains or has been recorded to indicate the course of Indian pictorial art for some six centuries or more.