Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.43

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At the same time the interest, as in Europe, centres in humanity. There is none of that vision which comparatively early in Chinese art sees man set in the immense surroundings of nature, and swept along in the great stream of universal life. The landscape element is tentatively approached, hardly grasped at all. The ridges of hills are marked by what appears more like a sort of structure or scaffolding, sometimes used to divide one scene from another. And there is a very curious convention of representing broken ground as if it were the debris of masonry. Professor Strzygowski has noted that just the same convention occurs in mosaics at Ravenna.