Editing Ajanta Caves (section)

== Impact on later painting and other arts==

The Ajanta paintings, or more likely the general style they come from, influenced painting in [[Tibet]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117550.htm |title=The Imprint of Ajanta in Tibetan Art, Eva Fernanadez del Campo Barbadillo, Buddhist Himalaya: A Journal of Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods, Vol. IX No. I & II (1998) |access-date=24 July 2014 |archive-date=28 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728064417/http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117550.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>[The Imperial Guptas: Cultural history, Volume 2 of The Imperial Guptas, Parmeshwari Lal Gupta, Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, 1979 p. 221]</ref> Some influences from Ajanta have also suggested in the [[Kizil Caves]] of the [[Tarim Basin]], in particular in early caves such as the ''[[:Commons:Category:Peacock Cave (Cave 76)|Peacock Cave]]''.<ref name="BR156">{{cite book |last1=Rowland |first1=Benjamin|page=156 |title=The art of Central Asia |date=1975 |publisher=New York, Crown |url=https://archive.org/details/artofcentralasia00rowl/page/156/mode/2up}}</ref>

The rediscovery of ancient Indian paintings at Ajanta provided Indian artists with examples from ancient India to follow. [[Nandalal Bose]] experimented with techniques to follow the ancient style which allowed him to develop his unique style.<ref>Vasudev Sharan Agrawal, Kala aur Sanskriti, 1952, p. 282–299</ref> [[Abanindranath Tagore]] and [[Syed Thajudeen]] also used the Ajanta paintings for inspiration.

[[Anna Pavlova]]'s ballet ''Ajanta's Frescoes'' was inspired by her visit to Ajanta, choreographed by [[Ivan Clustine]], with music by [[Nikolai Tcherepnin]]<ref>Robert H. Stacy, ''India in Russian Literature'' (Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1985, p.92.</ref> (one report says [[Mikhail Fokine]] in 1923).<ref>{{cite web |author=Lakshmi Shreeram |title=The Pavlova Project: A unique exhibition presents the life and work of legendary ballerina through her costumes |work=Firstpost |date=21 Jan 2020 |url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/the-pavlova-project-a-unique-exhibition-presents-the-life-and-work-of-legendary-ballerina-through-her-costumes-7928291.html |access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref> and premiered at [[Covent Garden]] in 1923.

Jewish American poet [[Muriel Rukeyser]] wrote about the caves in "Ajanta," the opening poem of her third collection ''Beast in View'' (1944). Rukeyser was inspired in part by writings on the caves by artist [[Mukul Dey]] in 1925 and art historian [[Stella Kramrisch]] in 1937.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bergman |first1=David |title=Ajanta and the Rukeyser Imbroglio |journal=American Literary History |date=Fall 2010 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=553–583 |doi=10.1093/alh/ajq040 |jstor=40800579 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40800579 |access-date=4 July 2021}}</ref>