The Shekhawati region of Rajasthan is best known in painting for
- A.miniatures on ivory
- B.frescoes on the walls of havelis
- C.Pichhwai cloth paintings
- D.Ragamala manuscripts
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, frescoes on the walls of havelis. From the eighteenth century the merchant families of Shekhawati, in the Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Churu districts, built large courtyard houses and had their outer and inner walls covered with painted plaster. The subjects run from gods and legends to processions, portraits and, in the later ones, trains, motor cars and aeroplanes, which makes them a record of changing taste. Because the paintings are on the outside of the buildings and can be seen from the street, the region is often called an open-air art gallery. A, miniatures on ivory are associated with Alwar. C, Pichhwai paintings belong to Nathdwara. D, Ragamala manuscripts are associated with the court workshops of Mewar, Bundi and other states, not with Shekhawati.
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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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