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Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indian art. [1] The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, such as the petroglyphs found in places like the Bhimbetka rock shelters.
Ragini Todi. Mughal, c. 1750. Salar Jung Museum. In 1570, Kshemakarna, a priest of Rewa in Central India, compiled a poetic text on the Ragamala in Sanskrit, which describes six principal Ragas—Bhairava, Malakoshika, Hindola, Deepak, Shri, and Megha—each having five Raginis and eight Ragaputras, except Raga Shri, which has six Raginis and nine Ragaputras, thus making a Ragamala family of ...
Additional artwork found here include figurines made from soapstone in the early Gupta style. Coins unearthed were from the Puri-Kushan group. These attest to likely antiquity of the site, and that ideas about sculpture and painting likely diffused far from the northwest and central regions of India in the early centuries of the 1st-millennium ...
A distinct genre developed of watercolour painting on paper and mica in the later half of the 18th century depicting scenes of everyday life, regalia of princely courts, and native festivities and rituals. Referred to as the "Company style" or "Patna style", it flourished at first in Murshidabad and spread to other cities of British suzerainty ...
Barbad Plays for Khusraw, Khamsa of Nizami, British Library, Oriental 2265, 1539–43, inscribed Mirza Ali at bottom left. 'Abd al-Ṣamad or Khwaja 'Abd-us-Ṣamad was a 16th century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to India and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition, and later the holder of a number of senior administrative roles.
Indian miniature paintings are a class of paintings originating from India. [1] Made on canvases a few inches in length and width, the Indian miniatures are noted for the amount of details that the artist encapsulates within the minute canvas frame; and the characteristic sensitivity with which the human, divine and natural forms are portrayed.
Wasli can be produced to varying thickness and its uses range from classical/traditional painting methods with opaque water colors to building structures of various kinds. [ 1 ] Miniature Painting is a term used for making opaque/translucent water color paintings/illustrations on a small scale inspired from Persian or Pahari miniature schools ...
Painting photographs of Jami, Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Ismail I Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād ( c. 1455/60–1535), also known as Kamal al-din Bihzad or Kamaleddin Behzād ( Persian : کمالالدین بهزاد ), was a Persian painter and head of the royal ateliers in Herat and Tabriz during the late Timurid and early ...