RAJASTANI PAINTING
The Mughals brought miniature painting, an offshoot of manuscript painting to India in the 14th-15th centuries. It took deep root in what is known today as Rajasthan, hence the name Rajasthani painting. Its implantation in Rajasthan is mainly due to the close political and social contacts between the Mughal rulers of North India and the feudal Rajput princelings who flourished in northwestern India between the 15th and 18th centuries.
Many Rajput rulers and their courtiers were highly cultivated, and their courts were centres where the arts and artists received unstinted encouragement from their royal patrons. This was particularly so of painting, and what began as an offshoot of Mughal painting because in the years between the inception of Mughal rule and the British occupation of India from the 18th century, there was a rich flowering of many schools and styles of miniature painting which have found avid admirers among connoisseurs of art the world over.
Many Rajput rulers and their courtiers were highly cultivated, and their courts were centres where the arts and artists received unstinted encouragement from their royal patrons. This was particularly so of painting, and what began as an offshoot of Mughal painting because in the years between the inception of Mughal rule and the British occupation of India from the 18th century, there was a rich flowering of many schools and styles of miniature painting which have found avid admirers among connoisseurs of art the world over.
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