Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s12.5

v2.c8.s12.5

The remaining part of the panel consists of concentric circles divided by bands containing jewellery patterns, foliage designs, and a procession of geese. The last represents twenty-three birds in a variety of characteristic movements, showing the artist's close study of the habits of geese. Some have their necks sharply curved as if they were in an angry mood, some have stretched them forward to show their determination to attack, some have bent them down low to preen their feathers in an attitude of languor, some have turned their heads gracefully to one side to look amorously at their mates, and some have turned them with a romantic curve upwards to show their feeling of ecstacy. The fine brush work of the artist in the delineation of the feathers of the birds also deserves close study.