Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.29

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However tentative, this endeavour to realize or suggest the modelling of forms and the recession of objects in space is remarkable. And the problem is raised: does this endeavour represent something innate in the Indian genius, or is it something stimulated by foreign example? Apparently it dies out of Indian painting in later times. Coomaraswamy notes that at Ellora the remains of the later frescoes are much flatter than the earlier paintings. And this flatness is marked in the Rajput paintings, whether on walls or in miniatures.