Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.26

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Certainly the feeling for roundness and relief is strong in some of these artists. There are even, what is so unusual in Oriental painting, traces of modelling: and we note that high lights are sometimes rendered on the faces. Such appear on the brow, nose, and chin of the Bodhisattva (Plates XXIV and XXV) and on the face of the woman reproduced on Plate XXXIII. These lights have the appearance of having been sponged out when the painting was wet, after the manner practised by our water-colour painters; but this may be an erroneous impression.