Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.33

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How this great school of Indian painting grew up we do not know. Probably, like all vigorous schools, it would be willing and eager to borrow from art outside itself what it could readily absorb and assimilate. But in these days we tease ourselves overmuch over the question of origins. The art of Ajanta is thoroughly Indian, whatever stimulus it may have got from without. This is what is really interesting, its special contribution to the art of the world.