Indian Paintings

Indian Paintings posts cover several distinct traditions. Articles look at the Mughal miniature schools of Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan, the Rajput courts of Mewar, Bundi, Kishangarh and the Pahari hills, the Tanjore paintings of South India with their gold leaf and gemstone work, the Madhubani folk painting of Bihar, the Warli wall art of Maharashtra, the early modern Bengal School around Abanindranath Tagore and the major modernists of the Progressive Artists Group. There are also notes on the export market for contemporary Indian art and on the conservation challenges of palm-leaf manuscripts.