Oil painting, John Griffiths, 1872-1885
John Griffiths肖像John Griffiths英国, 1837–1918

Oil painting

1872-1885 · Oil painting · 292.3 × 193 cm

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This is a copy of a painting in cave 16 at Ajanta. The cave paintings of Ajanta are the oldest surviving examples of painting in India. They date from the 1st century BC to about AD 480 and depict stories from the lives of the Buddha (the Jatakas).

The cave complex was discovered in 1819 and since then attempts have been made to document the paintings inside them. In 1844 Major Robert Gill was commissioned to make copies. Unfortunately most of the paintings he completed were destroyed in a fire in 1866. To make up for this loss, from 1872 to 1885 John Griffiths from the Bombay School of Art and seven Indian students spent every winter at the caves. This is one of the approximately 300 paintings they produced.

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