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... scroll in the Seattle Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art's album leaf ( originally one of a set of 40 ) illustrating an episode from the Ise monogatari , a 10th - century tale . MAJOR WORKS Very few works are definitely ...
... scroll in the Seattle Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art's album leaf ( originally one of a set of 40 ) illustrating an episode from the Ise monogatari , a 10th - century tale . MAJOR WORKS Very few works are definitely ...
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... scroll , detail of the doorframe of the Pārvati temple . Lotus scroll painted on the ceiling of Cave 2 at Ajanta , Mahārāshtra , 5th century AD . CLLLL Siva - Mahesamūrti , the main image in the cave Temple at Elephanta , Mahārāshtra ...
... scroll , detail of the doorframe of the Pārvati temple . Lotus scroll painted on the ceiling of Cave 2 at Ajanta , Mahārāshtra , 5th century AD . CLLLL Siva - Mahesamūrti , the main image in the cave Temple at Elephanta , Mahārāshtra ...
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... scroll panels , and a hundred mon- ster - head waterspouts carry off the tropical rainwater . The gates on the stairways between terraces are of the standard Indonesian type , with the face of the Kāla mon- ster at the apex , vomiting ...
... scroll panels , and a hundred mon- ster - head waterspouts carry off the tropical rainwater . The gates on the stairways between terraces are of the standard Indonesian type , with the face of the Kāla mon- ster at the apex , vomiting ...
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