A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.28

c14.s2.28

The foregoing description of the technique of the Ajaṇṭā paintings, based upon Mr. Griffiths's patient study for thirteen years on the spot, may be accepted with confidence as authoritative, although Mr. Havell may be right in adding that the pictures were sometimes touched up in tempera after the surface had dried. Italian workers in true fresco (*fresco buono*) often permit themselves the same liberty.