Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 4 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Year by Year

Ajanta: Year by Year is planned as a biography of this remarkable site, starting with the earliest caves, dating from some two thousand years, to its startling renaissance in the brief period between approximately 462 and 480. Concentrating on the excavations of the later period, during the reign of the Vakataka emperor Harisena, it attempts to show how, after a surprising gap of some three hundred years, Ajanta's proud and pious courtly patrons and its increasingly committed workmen created not only the greatest but the latest monument of India's Golden Age. Nearly three hundred illustrations, in color and black and white, reveal the exuberant flowering of Ajanta and related Vakataka monuments, as well as the manner of their sudden demise.

About the author

Walter M. Spink, Ph.D. (1954), Harvard, is Professor Emeritus, History of Art, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published widely on Indian Art in general, and Ajanta and related sites in particular.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Spink
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 13.11.2008
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history
• EAN: 9789004149830
• ISBN: 978-90-04-14983-0
• Pages: 376
• Dimensions (packing): 16 x 24 x 2.2 cm
• Weight (packing): 735 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: > 18
• Subjects: Indien, Asiatische Geschichte, Ostasien, Ferner Osten, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, History - General History, ART / Asian / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Ur- und Frühgeschichte vor Christus