Day: August 5, 2011

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Indian Paintings

Mysore Paintings

Mysore painting is an important style of painting when it comes to classical South Indian paintings. As the name suggets, it originated in the town of Mysore located in Karnataka. These paintings are known for their elegance, and muted colours. The Mysore painting themes for most of these paintings are Hindu Gods and Goddesses. In these modern times, these paintings have become a much sought after souvenir during festive occasions in South India. [… More info …]

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Indian Paintings

Miniature Paintings

The Miniature painting pattern is very large scale painting. It is a traditional Indian painting which was majorly practiced Royal families. With the advent of Miniature Paintings, large scale paintings dominated the scene. [… More info …]

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Indian Paintings

Mughal Paintings

Mughal painting is a style of South Asian painting and Indian Painting, generally it is confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or single works to be kept in their albums, which emerged from Persian miniature painting, with Hindu, Jain, and the Buddhist influences, and developed in the court of the Mughal Empire and later spread to other Indian courts, both Muslim and Hindu, and also Sikh. [… More info …]

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Indian Paintings

Rajput Paintings

The Rajput Painting is a very beautiful style of Indian painting. They evolved and flourished in the 18th century, in the royal courts of Rajputs (Rajputana), India. Rajput paintings depict a number of themes, images of events like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata,Geeta, Krishna’s lifes beautiful landscapes, gardens and human beings. Many manuscripts also contain Rajput Paintings. [… More info …]