Fresco

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The Ajanta Frescos

The hallowed caves of Ajanta ,Maharashtra India houses probably the worlds oldest and most celebrated specimens of frescos.

The walls of the caves are covered with paintings suggesting a fair state of preservation from decay. The scenes depicted are mostly didactic, devotional, and ornamental. The themes are from the Jataka stories (the stories of the Buddha's former existences as Boddhisattva), life of the Gautam Buddha, and those of his veneration Frescos offer the painters with the joy of timelessness to the creator; the fact that the mix of pigments and plaster is permanent ensures that the paintings are durable and attractive.



Fresco is indeed the most preferable and chosen method of mural paintings, the works of great masters bear testimony to that very fact.

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