A new book features 60 miniature works from the Nathdwara Painting.<\/span><\/p>\n Nathdwara Painting<\/span> refers to a painting tradition and school of artists that emerged in <\/span>Nathdwara<\/span>, a town in <\/span>Rajasthan<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Nathdwara school is a subset of the Mewar school of painting and is seen as an important school in the 17th and 18th-century miniature paintings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nathdwara paintings are of different sub-styles of which <\/span>Pichhwai<\/span><\/i> paintings are the most popular.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>Shrinathji is a form of Krishna, manifested as a seven-year-old child (<\/span>Balak<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n Pichhwai<\/b> literally meaning ‘that which hangs from the back’ are large devotional Hindu painted pictures, normally on cloth, which portray Krishna.\u00a0<\/span>The purpose of Pichhwais, other than artistic appeal, is to narrate tales of Krishna to the illiterate.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>A glimpse of the golden period of Nathdwara Painting<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in Livemint <\/b>on 26th February 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A new book features 60 miniature works from the Nathdwara Painting. What is Nathdwara Painting? Nathdwara Painting refers to a painting tradition and school of artists that emerged in Nathdwara, a town in Rajasthan. Nathdwara school is a subset of the Mewar school of painting and is seen as an important… Continue reading A glimpse of the golden period of Nathdwara Painting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-171091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Nathdwara Painting?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are <\/b>Pichhwai<\/b> Paintings?<\/b><\/h5>\n