| "Ajanta is one of the greatest of the Asian cave temple complexes, containing
an amazing pageant of wall paintings devoted to various aspects of the life
of the Buddha. 'The art there does for Buddhist legend what the late
Renaissance did for Italian Catholicism, which is to subvert it for human
purposes by exalting the ideal human form. If there is a more sensuous
female figure in existence than the portrait of Queen Maya in Cave Number 2
at Ajanta, I don't know where it is.'" |
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