Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.25

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There is a kind of drawing which is the opposite of that kind which traces the contours of forms but tells us no more of them than the lines enclosing the coloured areas of a map. The moving brush, defining cheek, arm, or shoulder, persuades us also of the roundness of firm flesh; and more, it communicates not only solidity but the bloom, the quivering tissue of the skin, changing with the emotions that kindle in the blood. Such drawing we find in the art of Ajanta at its best: for even in this one ‘cave’ the paintings are not all by one hand or quite in the same style.