AJANTA - HANDBOOK OF THE PAINTINGS (3 Vols.)
Narrative Wall
Paintings
by Dieter
Schlingloff
2013; pp. 928, 31 cm, profously illustrated, ISBN : 9788173054563
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by Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts & Aryan
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Prof. Dieter Schlingloff is one of the leading experts on the
paintings of Ajanta . He has been engaged with
the task of identifying the subject matter of the Ajanta Paintings in rich
detail—a pre-requisite for further research. His steadfast research for last
forty years constitutes a brilliant corpus of books and articles on the
paintings of Ajanta . The present work comprises
the quintessence of his research on the narrative wall paintings, their literary
sources and the cultural background.
In Prof. Schlingloff's own words, “The narrative paintings of the
ancient period of Ajanta are of no less quality
than the contemporaneous paintings of Roman Pompeii, and like those, they are
the only testimonies of the marvelous art of narrative wall-painting elsewhere
lost. The glory of ancient Indian culture and the high standard of its morality
as revealed in the Ajanta paintings should
become known worldwide”.
The narrative wall paintings thus forms the subject matter of the
present publication arranged in three volumes where the main focus remains on
the relationship of the text and the image that will hopefully stimulate further
discussion and investigation in similar fields.
Professor emeritus
Dr. Dieter Schlingloff, formerly head of
the Department of Indology and Iranian Studies at the University of Munich,
Germany, is a specialist in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian culture
and art. More than forty years of the author's researches have been concentrated on the narrative Ajanta paintings.
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Prof. Dieter Schlingloff is one of the leading experts on the
paintings of Ajanta . He has been engaged with
the task of identifying the subject matter of the Ajanta Paintings in rich
detail—a pre-requisite for further research. His steadfast research for last
forty years constitutes a brilliant corpus of books and articles on the
paintings of Ajanta . The present work comprises
the quintessence of his research on the narrative wall paintings, their literary
sources and the cultural background.
In Prof. Schlingloff's own words, “The narrative paintings of the
ancient period of Ajanta are of no less quality
than the contemporaneous paintings of Roman Pompeii, and like those, they are
the only testimonies of the marvelous art of narrative wall-painting elsewhere
lost. The glory of ancient Indian culture and the high standard of its morality
as revealed in the Ajanta paintings should
become known worldwide”.
The narrative wall paintings thus forms the subject matter of the
present publication arranged in three volumes where the main focus remains on
the relationship of the text and the image that will hopefully stimulate further
discussion and investigation in similar fields.
Professor emeritus
Dr. Dieter Schlingloff, formerly head of
the Department of Indology and Iranian Studies at the University of Munich,
Germany, is a specialist in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian culture
and art. More than forty years of the author's researches have been concentrated on the narrative Ajanta paintings.
To Buy online click here - buy books from india
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