Atelier Ajanta, founded by Dutch-Surinamese brothers Hans and Jerrel Goedoen, draws insight from their Hindu heritage and the ...

Unseen AjantaThe work took over a decade and proved to be even more difficult than guessed. Early British art historians who had worked on copying the murals between 1844 and 1885 had coated the ...

The period of Ajanta as a thriving religious and artistic center appears to coincide with the reign of Harishena, who died in 478. By the seventh century, the monastery began to empty, the caves ...

However, the late art historian Walter Spink, in his magisterial seven-volume study of the caves, Ajanta: History And Development (2005-17), deduces with almost forensic detail why it must have ...

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

The restored Ajanta artworks are part of 100 mural paintings which Behl has restored out of 53,000 photographs he has taken of Indian and Asian art heritage over the years.

Haloi’s journey—from preserving Ajanta’s murals to forging his own path in abstraction—is a demonstration of the lasting dialogue between tradition and innovation in Indian art.

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 in AR On your next visit to the National Museum in Delhi, be sure to make your way to the third floor, where you will find the VEMA (Virtual Experiential Museum Ajanta) installation, an ...