| From the sixth century through the eighth, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain monks carved 34 temples out of stone, decorating them with remarkable imagination and skill. This image, densely filled with architectural detail and sculptural embellishment, reveals the aesthetic achievement that made the Ellora Caves the finest example of cave-temple architecture (2002, 71 x 121.9 cm, © Masumi Hayashi, courtesy of the artist). |
