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Amber school Prints
About the Amber School
Amber, now called Amer and part of Jaipur, was the capital of a Rajput state in Rajasthan until Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh founded Jaipur in 1727 to replace it. Paintings attributed to Amber belong to the wider Rajasthani tradition, which grew out of older western Indian manuscript painting and took on Mughal influence as it developed.
The best-known group is the dispersed "Boston" Rasikapriya of about 1610, a set of illustrations to Keshavdas's poem on the moods of love. It takes its name from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which holds many of its pages; others are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The pages show Krishna and Radha meeting, quarrelling and making up, and their style shows the influence of Mughal art. Some attributions to Amber are marked as uncertain by museums, since the region's early painting is still being studied.
Amber school prints: reproductions of early 17th-century Rajasthani miniature paintings from Amber, the old capital near Jaipur. The collection includes Radha Speaks to Krishna (1610), Krishna Kisses Radha and Krishna Woos Radha, pages from the Boston Rasikapriya (1610), Falcon on a Perch (1610) and Krishna Abhisarika Nayika, from a Rasikapriya manuscript (1615).
This selection is built around the Rasikapriya, following Krishna and Radha through courtship, with a Vasant Ragini page from a ragamala series and a single study of a falcon. Most of the pages date from within a few years of 1610.
These small, early pages suit studies, bedrooms and reading corners, and look well as a pair or a group. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
