Rajput School of Painting

This style of painting originated in Rajasthan around late 16th and early 17th century and had Mughal Influence. A typical style of painting with some common features in every Rajpoot School and illustrations were mostly based on the themes like events from Ramayana and Mahabharata, natural landscape, human beings etc. The colours were derived from plant sources, minerals, conch shells, gold, silver etc. The various centres of Rajpoot art are as following-

Bikaner

This style of painting has similarity with Mughal and Deccani style.

Paintings of this school were simple and lacked flashiness and pomposity.