🔆Nathdwara Painting
🔸About Nathdwara Painting: Nathdwara, a town close to Udaipur and a prominent Vaishnava centre, also emerged as a school of painting in the late seventeenth century.
🔸Nathdwara School is a subset of the Mewar School of painting. It is seen as an important school in the 17th and 18th-century miniature paintings.
🔸Nathdwara School includes different sub-styles of which Pichhwai paintings are the most popular.
✳️ Most works produced in this style revolve around the figure of Shrinathji as a manifestation of Krishna and refer to the incident of him holding the Govardhan hill on his last finger.
↪️ Note: Shrinathji is a form of Krishna, manifested as a seven-year-old child (Balak).
🔆About Pichhwai Paintings:
Pichhwai literally meaning ‘that which hangs from the back’. These are large devotional Hindu painted pictures, normally on cloth, which portray Lord Krishna. The purpose of Pichhwais, other than artistic appeal, is to narrate tales of Lord Krishna to the illiterate.
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🔸About Nathdwara Painting: Nathdwara, a town close to Udaipur and a prominent Vaishnava centre, also emerged as a school of painting in the late seventeenth century.
🔸Nathdwara School is a subset of the Mewar School of painting. It is seen as an important school in the 17th and 18th-century miniature paintings.
🔸Nathdwara School includes different sub-styles of which Pichhwai paintings are the most popular.
✳️ Most works produced in this style revolve around the figure of Shrinathji as a manifestation of Krishna and refer to the incident of him holding the Govardhan hill on his last finger.
↪️ Note: Shrinathji is a form of Krishna, manifested as a seven-year-old child (Balak).
🔆About Pichhwai Paintings:
Pichhwai literally meaning ‘that which hangs from the back’. These are large devotional Hindu painted pictures, normally on cloth, which portray Lord Krishna. The purpose of Pichhwais, other than artistic appeal, is to narrate tales of Lord Krishna to the illiterate.
#GS1 #PAINTING
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