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Most of the Ajanta caves, and almost all the murals paintings date from nearly 600 years later, during a second phase of construction. [86] The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. These are Buddhist legends describing the previous births of the Buddha.
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Avalokiteśvara / Padmapani, Ajanta Caves, India. ... In Sri Lanka, he is known as Natha ... Indian cave wall painting of Avalokiteśvara.
The caves form the largest corpus of early Indian wall-painting; other survivals from the area of modern India are very few, though they are related to 5th-century paintings at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.
English: Frescoes above (I believe) the central doorway to Ajanta cave 17. The ceiling is covered in decorative patterns, below is a row of Buddhas, and just above the doorway a couple of every day life scenes.
They bear some resemblance to the Gupta style of painting found in the Ajanta Caves in India. They are, however, far more enlivened and colorful and uniquely Sri Lankan in character. They are the only surviving secular art from antiquity found in Sri Lanka today. [citation needed] The painting technique used on the Sigiriya paintings is "fresco ...
Of particular importance is the Aluvihara cave temple near Matale (Central Province of Sri Lanka, from about the 3rd century BCE, 13 caves with murals and Buddha statues), which in the 1st century BCE, under the patronage of King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī Abhaya, was the site of the 4th Buddhist Council of the Theravada tradition. During the council ...
He is best known for his paintings copying the frescoes of the Ajanta Caves. Gill was the first painter [A] – after their rediscovery in 1819 – to make extensive copies of the Buddhist cave paintings, which mostly date to the 5th century CE. His surviving copies and drawings remain significant in Ajanta studies as the originals have ...