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Krishna and Radha, attributed to Nihal Chand, a master of the Kishangarh miniature school trained at the imperial court in Delhi. [1]Apart from the architecture of Rajasthan, the most notable forms of the visual art of Rajasthan are architectural sculpture on Hindu and Jain temples in the medieval era, in painting illustrations to religious texts, beginning in the late medieval period, and ...
Bhanwar lal Girdhari lal Sharma (5 August 1924 – November 2007), better known as B. G. Sharma, was a painter from Rajasthan, India. [1] He is famous for his miniature devotional paintings and his rejuvenation and popularization of classic Rajasthan art, including the Mughal, Kishangarh, and Kangra styles. [2]
Sahibdin's paintings deftly combine elements of the "popular Mughal" style then in vogue across northern India with the traditional Rajput style. [ 1 ] Among his surviving works are a series of musically themed " Ragamala " from 1628; a series on the scriptural text Bhagavata Purana from 1648; and illustrations to the Yuddha Kanda , the sixth ...
The City Palace Museum, Udaipur: Paintings of Mewar Court Life. Government Museum, Udaipur. ISBN 0-944142-29-X; Vashistha, Radhakrishna. (1995). Art and artists of Rajasthan: a study on the art & artists of Mewar with reference to western Indian school of painting. Abhinav Publications. ISBN 81-7017-284-5
Under the Royal patronage, various styles of paintings developed, cultivated, and practised in Rajasthan, and painting styles reached their pinnacle of glory by 15th to 17th centuries. The major painting styles are phad paintings, miniature paintings, kajali paintings, gemstone paintings, etc. There is incredible diversity and imaginative ...
The Bikaner style of painting is a Rajasthani style of Indian painting developed in the city of Bikaner, capital of Bikaner State. It is one of the many schools of Rajput painting that developed in the late 17th century with the help of artists from the imperial Mughal workshops, who dispersed after these were run down in the reign of Aurangzeb ...
Bani Thani, Kishangarh miniature from c. 1750, at the National Museum, New Delhi. Bani Thani was a singer and poet in Kishangarh in the time of Raja Sawant Singh (1748–1764), whose mistress she became.
Rajasthani literature is a tradition in Indian literature dating to the 2nd millennium, which includes literature written in the Rajasthani language. An early form of Rajasthani started developing in the 11th century from Saurseni Prakrit as Maru-Gurjar or Gurjar Apabhramsa. Early Rajasthani literature was usually written by Charans.