NEW DELHI: Unseen in their true colours until now, the more than 2000-year-old paintings of Ajanta will for the first time come out of their dark cave galleries for all to see. NEW DELHI: Unseen in ...

The popular UNESCO world heritage site, comprising 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments, is located about 100 km from the Aurangabad district headquarters. (Image Credit: Tarun Bhardwaj / Financial ...

NEW DELHI: Does India possess a continuous native tradition of painting which has evolved over the ages or were works like Ajanta's flash in the pan. new delhi: does india possess a continuous native ...

The Ajanta Caves are a World Heritage site and were sculpted and painted in phases over the period from the second century BC to the sixth century AD. The name Ajanta reminds us of its colourful ...

"A revised edition of a classic title, now with digitally restored photographs, showcasing the finest surviving examples of ancient Buddhist art. Since their chance rediscovery in 1819, the ...

In 1999, Manager Rajdeo Singh, the ASI chief of conservation and head of science at Aurangabad, began work on the restoration of the murals in Caves Nine and Ten at Ajanta. Manager Singh, as he is ...

HYDERABAD: When the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, embarked on a project of recording the grandeur of Ajanta caves through photography and paintings, little did he know that the finished ...

Research on narrative wall paintings of Ajanta by German expert Dieter Schlingloff has now been released in three volumes in English. The book "Ajanta: Handbook of paintings" first published in German ...

The paintings in the 2000-year-old Ajanta Caves are in a precarious state and can’t be fully restored. But there is an attempt to restore them digitally Arif Khan and his wife Nazia had planned their ...

Sometime in 1910, artist Christiana Herringham left her home in London for India and travelled to reach the Ajanta Caves in Central India, which she had visited four years earlier. The artist wanted ...