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Discuss the main features of the Malwa school of painting with examples.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

The Malwa school is one of the earliest and most stylistically conservative of the central Indian/Rajasthani schools of miniature painting, flourishing across roughly the seventeenth century, with its finest work concentrated between about 1630 and 1680.

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  • Geography and Patronage: A School Without a Single Court
  • Stylistic Features: Flatness, Boldness, Archaism
  • Thematic Range and Named Examples
  • Relationship to the Mughal Naturalistic Idiom

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