SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: The new patrons of paintings came up with Rajasthan and Pahari kingdom schools. These were the schools that illustrated manuscripts, album miniatures, portraits, and various other paintings made their way all over the India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most popular themes that were painted were the Bhagvata Purana, Gita Govinda, Nala Damayanti, Bihari Satsai, Ragamala and Baramasa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pahari painting-sometimes referred to as Hill painting (pahārī, “of the hills”)-is closely related in conception and feeling to Rājasthanī painting and shares with the Rājput art of the North Indian plains a preference for depicting legends of the cowherd god Krishna.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bilaspur town is located in Himachal Pradesh. This town has witnessed the growth of the Pahari paintings around the mid-17th century. Apart from the artworks of the Bhagavata Purana, Ramayana and Ragamala sequence, painters also made paintings on coverlets for sacraments and rituals.