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Jaipur school Prints
About the Jaipur School
Jaipur painting is the Rajasthani miniature painting of the court at Jaipur, the city Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh founded in 1727 to replace nearby Amber as the capital of his state. It belongs to the broad Rajasthani tradition of the 16th to 19th centuries, which developed in the Hindu states of Rajasthan, grew out of older western Indian manuscript painting and absorbed Mughal influence as it matured.
Compared with Mughal painting, Rajasthani work, Jaipur included, uses bolder colour, a more stylised human figure and a decorative treatment of landscape, with materials less costly than those of the imperial workshops. Its main subjects are the legends of Krishna and Radha, with scenes from the epics, ragamala series (pictures of musical modes) and types of heroine. In the 18th century court portraits, court scenes and hunts became increasingly common. Paintings were kept in albums or boxes and passed from hand to hand.
Jaipur school prints: reproductions of Rajasthani miniature paintings from the Jaipur court, made in the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The collection includes Kakubha Ragini (1750), Krishna and the Gopis Take Shelter from the Rain (1760), Radha's Confidante Brings Her to Krishna, based on poetry of Bihari (1790) and Fortified City of Ranthambhor (1810).
This selection pairs Krishna's love stories and a ragamala page with a painted map of the fortified city of Ranthambhor. Two pages place Krishna among the gopis, one of them sheltering from the rain.
The devotional pages suit bedrooms and quiet rooms; the Ranthambhor map works in a study, office or library. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
