A painting of Ajanta Caves made by Gajendra Aware, a primary teacher from the Aurangabad district, has won the top award at Torso India — an international platform of art competition and auction.

Ajanta Caves / Ellora Caves (India) XII.84 The Bureau examined the report on the state of conservation of these two World Heritage properties presented in document WHC-02/CONF.201/11Rev and the ...

A mural in Cave 10 The great majority of the Ajanta caves, and almost all the murals, particularly the rich cycles of wall painting in caves one and two, date from the second phase of construction.

An image of an ancient mural from India’s Ajanta Caves has been converted to special film and deposited in an Arctic mountain archive to keep it safe for future generations.

Ajanta Caves were carved out of a 250 ft wall and had monasteries and Buddhist halls of worship. The paintings represented the different lives and rebirths of the Buddha with sculptures of other ...

Ajanta’s most famous painting, the Padmapani, in Cave 1 Basole takes me around to his favourite sculpture in Kailasa. It is a marriage scene, where Shiva holds Parvati’s hand.

It’s these later caves from the reign of Harisena—1-8, 11 and 14-31 (these clusters hold the bulk of the surviving painted murals as well) that tell the most compelling story of Ajanta.

The Ajanta Caves were a sanctuary for Buddhist monks that was forgotten, along with its stunning riches, for nearly 1,500 years. Jonathan Glancey investigates. The Ajanta Caves, 30 spellbinding ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreIn May 2001, the World Heritage Centre received information on restoration of sculptures within Ajanta Caves using cement mortar, which has been recognized by the ...