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Malwa school Prints
About the Malwa School
Malwa painting is a 17th-century school of Rajasthani miniature painting, dated from about 1600 to 1700 and centred mainly in Malwa and Bundelkhand, in present-day Madhya Pradesh. Because it lies outside Rajasthan proper, it is also called Central Indian painting. The school was conservative, and its style changed little from its earliest examples.
Its earliest dated work is a 1636 series illustrating the Rasikapriya, a poem on the moods of love. A late 17th-century illustrated Amaru Shataka, a Sanskrit poem, is in the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai, now the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. Malwa painters favoured flat compositions on black and chocolate-brown grounds, with figures set against solid patches of colour and architecture painted in lively colour. Little is known of the school in the 18th century.
Malwa school prints: reproductions of 17th-century miniature paintings from Malwa in central India. The collection includes Kedara Ragini (1650), Three Musicians Perform Before a King: Shri Raga, from a Ragamala (1650) and Bangala Ragini (1680).
This selection is drawn from ragamala series, sets of pictures that give each musical mode a scene and a mood: a king listening to musicians, and two raginis shown as figures in simple settings. The pages date from the middle and later 17th century, the main period of the Malwa school.
The dark grounds and strong colour read well on light walls, in studies, music rooms and hallways. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
