Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ajanta Caves' has mentioned 'Art' in the following places:
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[1][note 1] The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, particularly expressive paintings that present emotions through gesture, pose and form. | WIKI |
They are universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art. | WIKI |
[34][35][36] This view has been criticised by some scholars,[37] but is now broadly accepted by most authors of general books on Indian art, for example, Huntington and Harle. | WIKI |
Cave 10: a worship hall with Jataka tales-related art (1st century BCE)[84] Cave 9: a worship hall with early paintings and animal friezes (1st century CE)[84] Cave 19: known for its figures of the Buddha, Kubera and other arts (5th century CE)[84] Cave 19: another view (5th century CE) | WIKI |
Four of the later caves have large and relatively well-preserved mural paintings which, states James Harle, "have come to represent Indian mural painting to the non-specialist",[88] and represent "the great glories not only of Gupta but of all Indian art". | WIKI |
There are many art panels narrating Buddhist themes, including those of the Buddha with Nagamuchalinda and Miracle of Sravasti. | WIKI |
A further set of copies were made between 1909 and 1911 by Christiana Herringham (Lady Herringham) and a group of students from the Calcutta School of Art that included the future Indian Modernist painter Nandalal Bose. | WIKI |
Many frescos show scenes from shops, festivals, jesters at processions, palaces and performance art pavilions. | WIKI |
To many who are unaware of the premises of Indian religions in general, and Buddhism in particular, the significance of Ajanta Caves has been like rest of Indian art. | WIKI |
[275] In contrast, to the Indian mind and the larger Buddhist community, it is everything that art ought to be, the religious and the secular, the spiritual and the social fused to enlightened perfection. | WIKI |
According to Walter Spink xe2x80x93 one of the most respected Art historians on Ajanta, these caves were by 475 CE a much-revered site to the Indians, with throngs of "travelers, pilgrims, monks and traders". | WIKI |
[281][284] These assumptions by colonial British era art historians, state Spink and other scholars, has been responsible for wrongly dating this painting to the 7th century, when in fact this reflects an incomplete Harisena-era painting of a Jataka tale (the Mahasudarsana jataka, in which the enthroned king is actually the Buddha in one of his previous lives as King) with the representation of trade between India and distant lands such as Sassanian near East that was common by the 5th century. | WIKI |