Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s18.2

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THE fresco has excited much curiosity among European visitors to Ajanta, some of whom have compared the composition with the *Primavera* of Botticelli, while others have found in some of the figures a likeness to the early Madonnas of Europe. But the feeling, ideals, and technique shown in the fresco are so different from the European, that such comparisons, instead of helping towards a correct appreciation of the subject, are rather apt to have a contrary effect.