Have you ever heard about this caves?
Maybe not, at least I haven’t heard about them until a few months ago, I remember one of my most impressive places that I know is “Petra” the city made of stone. But here in the India there is a similar place like that, Ajanta…
Ajanta is a complex of caves carved in rock with around 2000 years old, a very delicate and awesome work, the details are awesome, you only have to see the figures or the simple pillars, the alignment or the sculpture So we can see this place is Art.
There are 28 caves in total, some of them they are now buried or unfinished, this takes us to another story.
The reason to construct this caves?
This caves were a secret during years and even now the story behind them is just speculation. there is no data about them, but checking the shapes and the art inside we can estimate a date, Principally they are Buddhist temples, places where the monks and students spent the time. the creation of this caves was around the 100 BC or 100 AC, when the India was still a Buddhist place, then were built 5 caves but suddenly were abandoned.
the people who study the matter thinks the work stopped because of the buddhism lose power in the India becoming an Hindu country around the 220 BC.
Time later the works started again around the 460 ~ 480 at this point were creatd the remaining caves and the way to construct them is far advanced in comparison to the last works, at here we can find a better design and very detailed pieces of art. but they were abandoned again at 480 CE. then the caves remained hidden to the world during a thousand years until a guy called John Smith rediscover them again in 1819. maybe Rediscover is not the right term because when John Smith entered in there, there were people praying inside. but thanks to this this caves where shown to the world until now, and they are considered a treasure for the humanity.
Maybe the structures are awesome and surely they are. But in the Ajanta Caves we can find another important point. The paintings.
This paintings found in there show us parts from the ancient India’s style, the way they represented the art, and some way connect us with that moments, obviously the paintings inside are very deteriorated, and bad news that the paintings have been tried to be restored or copied but the efforts have failed even 2 times in a museum the paintings were destroyed by fire at the crystal palace in London and another one in Victoria Albert Museum.
Ajanta is an awesome place to discover and maybe not very known as should be, try to discover about this awesome place…
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