Thanks for your overwhelming response. Frankly I never expected such response over just 4 post. Your appreciation really encourage to write more.
Received few message asking about other style and schools, basically the most important four major schools of paintings were Mewar (Udaipur), Marwar (Jodhpur - Bikaner), Dhundhar (Jaipur) and Hada (Bundi, Kota) and yes the one I shared earlier Kishangarh.
Bundi school had illustrations of religious and classical poetry along with court culture and depiction of feminine.
Jaipur school is influenced by Mughal style.
Mewar school is celebrated for its lifestyle portraits developed for the various Maharanas of Mewar and Jodhpur school show whiskered men in high turbans, full of verve and passion, accompanied by dainty maidens.
Paintings of the legendary Dhola Maru on camel back dominate the paintings of this region.
In continuation to previous post would love to share more about 'Bani Thani', the finest painting of the period from the brush of master artist Nihal Chand who transfigured his patron Sawant Singh (who later became a hermit) as lord Krishna and his beautiful lady mistress 'Bani Thani' as Radha. Sawant Singh fell in love with a singer in the employ of his stepmother called Bani Thani.
Bani Thani’s eyes were what drew Sawant Singh to her, and so did her singing. Seeing Bani Thani singing in his court each day helped the king’s heart grow fonder. Now Sawant Singh wrote poetry under the name of Nagari Das, and since Bani Thani was a poet in her own right too.
As an other side of coin, it somewhere shows the Sawant Singh as a poet, ruler in romance and following the 'religion of love'.
So do you too follow the same? :)
Received few message asking about other style and schools, basically the most important four major schools of paintings were Mewar (Udaipur), Marwar (Jodhpur - Bikaner), Dhundhar (Jaipur) and Hada (Bundi, Kota) and yes the one I shared earlier Kishangarh.
Bundi school had illustrations of religious and classical poetry along with court culture and depiction of feminine.
Jaipur school is influenced by Mughal style.
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| Maharaja playing polo with his favorite lady companions |
Bani Thani’s eyes were what drew Sawant Singh to her, and so did her singing. Seeing Bani Thani singing in his court each day helped the king’s heart grow fonder. Now Sawant Singh wrote poetry under the name of Nagari Das, and since Bani Thani was a poet in her own right too.
As an other side of coin, it somewhere shows the Sawant Singh as a poet, ruler in romance and following the 'religion of love'.
So do you too follow the same? :)
when I saw Bani Thani, when I heard her sing
ReplyDelete(by Raj Arumugam)
O Bani Thani
I grow thin, wanting you;
O you of the drooping eyes and long neck
O Bani Thani, O sublime poetess and singer
who walks gracefully through the halls of Kishangarh
I hear
you are in my stepmother’s service;
and the songs you sing
though they are most sublime
they lure me into unholy thoughts, O Bani Thani
as do your drooping eyes, your lips curved into a smile
You walk head high always, they say
and you look directly ahead even when I am nigh
and yet that too invites me to wander over the landscape of your face
your drooping eyes, your drooping eyes
the eyebrow like a bow, the bow of Rajput warriors
whose arrows pierce with vigour
the elongated face, O Bani Thani
your elongated face and nose and curls of hair
that flow to your waist
and that visage and seduction all graced in muslin odhni
O Bani Thani
I hear your voice, I hear your songs
and your poems are recited here by the men even in the streets –
O but do you hear mine, do you hear my poems of
love, lust and thoughts unholy?
O do you hear my poems of pain and longing? –
all arising, all arising, O Bani Thani
everything in my manhood aroused
as I see you walk by, as I hear you sing
as I hear you play on your instruments
O Bani Thani, Bani Thani –
sing to me, sing to me:
What is my end, what is my fate
in this my love and longing for you?
GOOD
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