Items related to Ajanta Paintings: 86 Panels of Jatakas and Other Themes
Devoted exclusively to the paintings, this title is an abridged edition of An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves, 2012 (ISBN 9788192510705) by the same author and publisher. The monograph is aimed for students of higher education studying ancient Indian history and culture or Buddhist art and archaeology of the Indian subcontinent. The language is simple so that even such general readers who desire to understand the subject in detail would have no inconvenience.
You will find here the following contents within a single volume:
- A short introduction to the historical, religious, and political background of Ajanta, such that is based on the latest researches.
- Systematic and summarised descriptions of the complete corpus of the narrative wall paintings based on the new research and corpus by Dieter Schlingloff of Leipzig University.
- Systematic photographic documentation of the narrative wall paintings by reproducing at least one photograph for each of the narrative wall painting that is still extant in some measure. The present corpus sadly excludes the paintings of the caves 9 and 10 because of the extremely poor state of preservation that has been beyond the author’s scope of photography.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHari Sena Press Private Limited
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 8192510735
- ISBN 13 9788192510736
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages144
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 12.00
Shipping:
US$ 12.31
From India to U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Ajanta Paintings
Seller:
Rating
Book Description NA. Condition: New. 140pp. Under a new title this book is an abridged edition of An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves, 1st ed. (Baroda: Hari Sena Press, 2012) by the same author./This edition is focused on the paintings of Ajanta, and does away from the detailed historical developments of the caves.The book highlights the corpus of the paintings that are currently extant on the site. It is somewhat in line with the earlier attempts by Robert Gill (1862, 1864, 1867), John Griffiths (1896-97), Gulam Yazdani (1930-55), Dieter Schlingloff (1999, 2013), and Monika Zin (2003) to accommodate the painted narratives and major non-narrative themes with corresponding illustrations and descriptive texts.Before Schlingloff and Zin, some of the painted themes were never identified at all; some were incorrectly identified; and many were correctly identified but various events, episodes, and scenes within a particular narrative or non-narrative panel were never fully explained. Schlingloff and Zin have done so with remarkable detail. Their illustrations are drawings, which are better suited for the purpose of in-depth study. There was a need to learn the same with the help of photographs. This book serves exactly the same purpose, albeit in an abridged format.For the first time, a book accommodates, within the space of a single volume: the entire corpus of the extant panels of the narrative and non-narrative themes (86 panels). all the latest identifications of the painted themes by Dieter Schlingloff of Leipzig University and Monika Zin of Ludwig-Maximilians¦Universitat Munich. short retelling of the Jatakas and other stories (86 narrative and non-narrative painted panels). long-exposure, low light, fine arts photography of 86 painted panels (143 colour photos).Nontechnical language is used to help the students and general readers understand the entire corpus of the Ajanta paintings. At the same time, the content is so presented as to keep the expert readers engaged. Seller Inventory # 1043347
Buy New
US$ 12.00
Convert currency