pahari painting

Pahari painting is a form of painting that flourished in the region between the 17th and 19th century.

The sentiment of love remained the inspiration and the central theme of Pahari painting.

It is in the development and modification of Pahari paintings, that the Kangra School features.

The museum has a number of Greco-Buddhist sculptures, Mughal and Pahari paintings on display.

Only four rooms of the palace are open depicting Pahari paintings of Mahabharata epic scenes and royal memorabilia.

Centres of Pahari Painting, by Chandramani Singh.

It features palm leaf manuscripts dating to the 11th-12th centuries to the early 19th century pahari paintings, as well as paintings from the Sultanate period.

The painting is the example of Pahari painting used in Gardner's Art Through the Ages:

There is a collection of miniature Pahari paintings, sculptures, bronzes wood-carvings and also costumes, textiles and jewellery of the region.

Kangra paintings belong to the school of Pahari paintings that were patronized by the Rajput rulers between the 17th and 19th centuries.

On the origins of Pahari Painting, by Vishwa Chander Ohri, Joseph Jacobs.

Paintings from the Punjab hills, or Pahari paintings, with their palettes of vegetable green, dusky orange, and afterglow lavender, are soaked in a spirit of place.

Pahari paintings, as the name suggests, were paintings executed in the hilly regions of India, in the sub-Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh.

The Pahari paintings, with their fertile landscapes and dauntless heroines, have sources in that rich subject, and one looks forward to Ms. Dehejia's show with eager impatience.

Later on this style also reached Mandi, Suket, Kulu, Arki, Nalagarh and Tehri Garhwal (represented by Mola Ram), and now are collectively known as Pahari painting.

Basohli is widely known for its paintings called Basohli paintings, which are considered the first school of Pahari paintings, and which evolved into the much prolific Kangra paintings school by mid-eighteenth century.

Chamba is also well noted for its arts and crafts, particularly its Pahari paintings, which originated in the Hill Kingdoms of North India between the 17th and 19th century and its handicrafts and textiles.

The unique architect of houses and temples, splendid wood and metal craft, world fame Chamba Rumal and Chappal and of course the exquisite pahari paintings are some salient features of this one thousand years young town.

He donated musical instruments, ancient jewellery, textiles, pottery and an armory, relics from the Graeco-Bactrian times, as well as Graeco-Buddhist sculptures, and Mughal and Pahari paintings to the Lahore Museum in 1964.

Pahari painting (literal meaning a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar means a mountain in Hindi) is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, originating from Himalayan Hill kingdoms of North India, during 17th-19th century.

It became prevalent with the fading of Basohli school of painting in mid-18th century, and soon produced such a magnitude in paintings both in content as well as volume, that the Pahari painting school, came to be known as Kangra paintings.

Chamba is noted for its miniature Pahari paintings, where Basohli style of Pahari paintings took roots with Nikku, the artist of Basohli migrating from Guler to Chamba in the eighteenth century.

Pahari paintings and Sikh portraits in the Lahore Museum by Authors F. S. Aijazuddin, Lahore Museum (Pakistan), published by Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977 from the University of Michigan Digitized on Dec 2, 2009.