Phad painting, the long cloth scroll narrating the deeds of folk deities, is traditionally made at
- A.Bassi in Chittorgarh
- B.Shahpura in Bhilwara
- C.Nathdwara in Rajsamand
- D.Mandawa in Jhunjhunu
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The correct answer is B, Shahpura in Bhilwara district, where families of the Joshi community have painted Phad scrolls for generations. A Phad is a long horizontal cloth on which the whole life story of a folk deity, most often Pabuji or Devnarayan, is laid out in episodes, and it is not simply hung for display: a Bhopa priest-singer carries it from village to village, unrolls it at night and sings the story while pointing to each scene by lamplight. A, Bassi in Chittorgarh is the home of the Kavad, the small wooden shrine with hinged doors. C, Nathdwara is the home of the Pichhwai. D, Mandawa is a Shekhawati town famous for painted havelis, that is, for frescoes rather than for scrolls. A Phad is traditionally painted with vegetable and mineral colours, and the figures are shown in profile with the hero drawn larger than everyone around him.
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Practice Questions
View allThe famous painting Bani Thani belongs to which school of Rajasthani painting?
- A.Bundi
- B.Kishangarh
- C.Nathdwara
- D.Bikaner
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Bani Thani is the best known single work of the Kishangarh sub-style of the Marwar school, painted in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the art historian Eric Dickinson called it the Indian Mona Lisa.
Read the full explanation →Who painted the Bani Thani portrait?
- A.Sahibdin
- B.Nihal Chand
- C.Sahib Ram
- D.Ruknuddin
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Nihal Chand developed the elongated, idealised face that defines the Kishangarh style and used it for Radha and Krishna as well as for the single portrait now called Bani Thani, often set against the water of the Gundalao lake.
Read the full explanation →Which school of Rajasthani painting is most famous for its hunting or shikar scenes?
- A.Mewar
- B.Kota
- C.Jaipur
- D.Jodhpur
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Kota separated from Bundi in the seventeenth century and, while it inherited Bundi's feeling for dense forest and water, it turned that setting to a subject of its own, the royal hunt.
Read the full explanation →Pichhwai paintings are chiefly associated with which place in Rajasthan?
- A.Nathdwara
- B.Bundi
- C.Shekhawati
- D.Kishangarh
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A Pichhwai is a large painting on cloth that is hung behind the image of Shrinathji in the temple, the word itself meaning that which hangs at the back, and it is changed according to the season and the festival being observed.
Read the full explanation →The earliest dated set of Ragamala paintings of the Mewar school was made at Chawand in 1605 by which artist?
- A.Sahibdin
- B.Nisardin
- C.Manohar
- D.Bagta
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A Ragamala is a series in which each musical mode is given a visual form, with a season, a time of day and a mood attached to it.
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