Miniature PaintingsMiniatures are the small sized, handmade, very colourful paintings and main feature of these Miniature paintings include complex and gentle brush work which provides them unique identity. In the eastern and western India miniature Paintings developed in the 9th to the 11th century as a reaction to large scale wall painting. The colours used in Miniature were handmade from vegetables, minerals, stones, indigo etc.
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Palas of Bengal were the pioneers of miniature painting in India.
The art of miniature painting reached its glory during the Mughal period.
The tradition of miniature paintings was carried forward by the painters of different Rajasthani schools of painting like the Bundi, Kishangarh, Jaipur, Marwar & Mewar.
The Ragamala paintings also belong to this school, as does the Company painting produced for British clients under the British Raj.
