Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s9.25

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The dominating figure in the apartment, however, is the Princess herself, in depicting whose bodily charm the painter has exhibited his highest skill. That the beauty of her slender figure and slim limbs may be best appreciated, he has chosen for the Princess a standing pose, and to add naturalness and ease, he has made her lean gracefully against a pillar. A sweet inclination of the head shows the charm of the beautiful neck and shoulders to advantage, while the fine contours of the bust and of the lower part of the body are modulated rhythmically by a poetically thin waist.