Walter Spink

Walter M. Spink (February 16, 1928 - November 23, 2019) was an American art historian who was best known for his extensive study of Buddhist art in India, particularly the Ajanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.About his work on the Ajanta caves, scholars have acknowledged that his ideas "revolutionized the history of the site".[2][3] Spink was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and went to Amherst College, where he studied philosophy and Western art history, graduating in 1949.At Harvard, Spink received his MA and then PhD in 1954 on the "Rock Cut Monuments of the Andhra Period".The culmination of his research was the Ajanta: History and Development series published by Brill in Leiden, Netherlands.
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