Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.23

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I am told that the present reproductions do give in the main the truth of the colouring; and one may well believe it. The depth and vibration of colour are extraordinary: and I had never conceived from any of the former copies such moving passages of colour as, for instance in this fresco, the blue of the peafowl, deeply gleaming from sombre green, that foils and enhances the whole warm harmony with its smouldering reds, the red of rust and the red of wine.