The Art of India: Sculpture and Mural Painting in the Ancient and Medieval Periods (In 2 Volumes)
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1st ed.
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ISBN
9788193418703
Length
500p.
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Chitrasutra, the ancient Indian treatise on painting, began in the oral tradition before it was recorded on paper sometime in the fifth century C.E. The renowned art historian Benoy K Behl set out to study this treatise in the process of documenting Indian art, beginning in 1991 with the exquisite paintings of Ajanta. He soon realised that Indian art had taken over his life. “I was deeply moved by the world which was presented in the paintings of ...