Revived by AI, Ajanta cave painting s future-leap on Svalbard Isle
Sat, Apr 17 2021 11:12 IST |
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Revived by AI, Ajanta cave painting-s future-leap on Svalbard Isle. Image Source: IANS News
Revived by AI, Ajanta cave painting-s future-leap on Svalbard Isle. Image Source: IANS News
Revived by AI, Ajanta cave painting-s future-leap on Svalbard Isle. Image Source: IANS News
Revived by AI, Ajanta cave painting-s future-leap on Svalbard Isle. Image Source: IANS News
Mumbai, April 17 : When India was grappling with the Covid-19 crest in mid-2020, an ancient treasure of Maharashtra was quietly catapulted into the future world history , but the epochal event went virtually unnoticed in the country.
December 31, 2020
Ajanta cave painting Maha-janaka Jataka, Cave 1 Dancer with musicians.
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Featuring elephants, elaborate headdresses, finely wrought jewellery, flowers, jars of wine (or perhaps water), buxom women playing musical instruments, helmeted foreigners and religious symbols, the ancient Buddhist art of the Ajanta Caves in western India is considered a supremely beautiful historical record dating from as early as two millennia ago.
Now, an image of a detail from one of the murals has been deposited in an underground archive, in a decommissioned coal mine deep in an Arctic mountain on an island off the northern coast of Norway.
Originally photographed by Indian art historian Benoy Behl in the early 1990s using lowlight photography techniques he developed for the work, the image is of King Mahajanaka seen renouncing worldly pleasures in one of the elaborate Ajanta murals.