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Guler school Prints
About the Guler School
Guler painting is the Pahari miniature painting associated with Guler, a small hill state in present-day Himachal Pradesh. It is closely linked to one family of painters: Pandit Seu and his sons Manaku and Nainsukh, who were trained in the Mughal manner and brought a new naturalism to it. The Guler style is regarded as the early phase of what became Kangra painting.
Manaku, the elder son, painted Hindu texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and the Gita Govinda. Nainsukh (about 1710–1778) left the family workshop around 1740 for Jasrota, where he worked mainly for Raja Balwant Singh and painted intimate scenes of the raja's daily life. Guler painters drew heavily on Mughal portraiture and developed a female type with youthful, rounded faces. Works by the family are now in museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum Rietberg in Zurich.
Guler school prints: reproductions of miniature paintings from the hill state of Guler, made between about 1740 and 1800. The collection includes The Demon Hiranyaksha Departs the Demon Palace (1740), Kalki Avatar, the Future Incarnation of Vishnu (1760) and Vishnu as Varaha, the Boar Avatar, Slays Banasur (1800).
This selection is devoted to Vishnu's avatars and the demons they fight, from the demon Hiranyaksha leaving his palace to Varaha the boar and Kalki, the avatar still to come.
The myth scenes suit studies, libraries and living rooms, and the pages hang well together as a set. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
