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INDIA BY CECIL BEATON: Photographs taken by Cecil Beaton whilst in India. Hyderabad...
Catalogue reference: INF 14/439
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INF 14/439
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1944-1945
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INDIA BY CECIL BEATON: Photographs taken by Cecil Beaton whilst in India. Hyderabad region. Views of the Kailash and Ellora temple caves, and the Ajanta caves. 'Ellora Hill, containing the famous cave temples, is about 19 miles North-West of Aurangbad, in Hyderabad state. The hill-face is crescent-shaped, and the caves, excavated from South to North, are Buddhist, Hindu and Jain respectively. The 12 Buddish temple caves are the oldest dating probably from the 3rd to the 6th century AD.' 'Kailash Temple Cave, one of the group carved into the Ellora hillside, is a masterpiece of Indian architecture and sculpture, and is the'gem of the collection' of caves. Its dates from AD 500 to 700. To construct it about 3,000.000. Cubic feet of rock had to be quarried or chiselled. Its courtyard alone averages from 154 ft wide by 276 ft. long with a searp 107 ft. high at its back. The Temple itself, inside and out, roofs, ceilings, walls and pillars, are extravagantly and lavishly sculpted.' 'The 29 Buddhist caves in the Ajanta Hills, Hyderabad, are in effect a great museum of Indian painting. They furnish a record of an almost unique combination of painting, sculpture and architecture over about nine centuries - the second or first century BC to the middle of the seventh century AD.' The 10 photographs within this document are described at item level.
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10 photograph(s)
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Open Immediately
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Open Document, Open Description
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