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- Gandhara Art
- Rajput painting
- Saranatha pillar
- Gopurum
- Vijayanagara art
- Bundi School Of Painting
- Sunga art
- Kangra school of painting
- Manjusha Art
- Madhubani Art
- Kishangarh school of painting
- Rock-cut temple
- Mathura school of art
- Chola architecture
- Kulu School
- Chaitya
- nagara style of architecture
- Chandella School Of Arch
- Dravadian Architecture
- Mughal painting
- Mughal Architecture
- Effect Of Islamic Rulers on India Architecture
- HINDUSTAN MUSIC
- Carnatic music
- Ahmadiya movement
- Mindmap
Gandhara Art
Greco-Buddhist art
- the hand of a Greek but the head and heart of an Indian.
- the basic urge, imagery and iconography remained Indian
- north-west
- west-asia settled here
- lotus throne
- central Asian fashion
Rajput painting
- depict a number of themes, events of epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Krishna’s life
- but many paintings were done on the walls of palaces, inner chambers of the forts,
- colours were extracted from certain minerals, plant sources, conch shells, and were even derived by processing precious stones
- emerged from Persian miniature painting
Saranatha pillar
- lion capital = national emblem
- four lions are seated back to back
- UP:
- column = same place
- lion capital = sarnatha museum
- @ ashoka column
- ashoka chakra = indian flag
Gopurum
- monumental tower, entrance, southern india
- pallavas
- shrine has more than one
- tamil meaning = king and exterior
- urban nodes and focal points
Vijayanagara art
- religious, courtly and civic
- comb = hoysala, pandya, chola
- granite, sandstone and plaster
Bundi School Of Painting
- major cultural hub in the city of Bundi, Rajasthan
- Mewar School, the School of Painting
- uman figures have a unique expression
- red-brown color
Sunga art
- stupas at sanchi
- expansion of mathura school
- sculpture not in bold relief
- male/female large ornaments
- no emotions
- eyeballas conspicuous
Kangra school of painting
- Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
- @ Pahari painting school
- greenery
- naturalistic
- plants and creepers, leafless trees
- colors made of vegetable and mineral extract
Manjusha Art
- Manjushas are temple-shaped boxes
- ade of bamboo,jute and paper
- Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Tarai area of the Nepal
- Manjusha Art is one of the very old and historically very important Art
Madhubani Art
- Mithila painting
- region of Bihar state
- using natural dyes and pigment
- paintings for each occasion and festival such as birth, marriage, holi
- aditionally by the women of villages
- paste of powdered rice
- mostly depict nature and Hindu religious motifs
Kishangarh school of painting
- elongation of human faces
- Portrayal of Radha and Krishna
- Bani Thani.
- labeled as India’s “Mona Lisa”
Rock-cut temple
- mostly religious in nature
- When Buddhist missionaries arrived they naturally gravitated to caves
- suited to their natural inclinations
- A rock cut temple is carved from a large rock and excavated and cut
- ellora, kailash
Mathura school of art
- ancient
- kushanas
- city of mathura
- hinduism, jainism and buddhism
- first Buddha images
- Sarnath, Sravasti Rajgir
- school excelled in Yaksha (Male)
- lion throne Indian dresses
Chola architecture
- tamil dynasty
- famous for tamil lit + art and archi
- Pallava style
- sanctum = square + circular
- stone and metal scrip
- gopurams
Kulu School
- style of painting
- is one of the prominent examples of centres of pahari school of painting in india.
Chaitya
- buddhist or jain shrine including a stupa
- holding devotees
- providing shelter
- roman = column + arch
- ajanta, ellora
Nagara style of architecture
- hindu temple archi
- elevation convex curve
- plan square shape
- projections of plan are carried to top
Chandella School Of Arch
- diff from other dynasties
- contemporary : khajuraho temple and lakes
Dravadian Architecture
- southern part
- developed for about 10 centuries
- Chola domination was the golden age for Dravidian Architecture
- Northeastern Sri Lanka, Maldives, and various parts of Southeast Asia
- Vimanam, Mandapams,Gopurams
Mughal painting
- emerged from Persian miniature painting
- blending of Persian and Indian ideas
- greater interest in realistic portraiture
- Animals and plants were also more realistically shown
Mughal Architecture
- at fatehpur sikri synthesis of various regional schools of architectural
- islamic, hindu and jain
- Sikri sandstone
- Buland Darwaza, jama masjid, Tomb of Salim Chishti, panch mahal
Effect Of Islamic Rulers on India Architecture
- use of shapes (instead of natural forms)
- decorative lettering or calligraphy
- inlay decoration and use of coloured marble
- all spaces were spanned by means of horizontal beams
- concept of arch or dome was not invented by the Muslims
- borrowed architectural styles of the post-Roman period
- put to use certain scientific and mechanical formulae
- were typical mortar-masonry works formed of dressed stones
- religious=Mosques and Tombs
- secular=palaces and forts
- masjid
- open courtyard surrounded by a pillared verandah
- crowned off with a dome
- mihrab indicates the direction of the qibla for prayer
- tomb
- maqbara = maqbara refers to the graves of all Muslims, it refers especially to the graves (Raula or Rauza) of religious figures or Waliyullahs who dedicated their life to Islam
- qabr = normal muslim person
- dargah = In Asian countries, maqbara also refers to the Dargah of Waliyullahs, Sufis, Sheikhs, Imams
- three sections
- delhi or imperial
- provincial
- jaunpur
- deccan
- mughal
Ahmadiya movement
- Islamic reformist
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
- view themselves as leading the revival and peaceful propagation of Islam
- earliest Muslim communities to arrive in Britain and other Western countries
- Most mainstream Muslims consider both Ahmadi movements to be non-Muslim and heretical
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In Dravidian architecture, there are 2 terms called gopuram and vimanam. gopuram means entrance tower. vimanam means its tower over sanctum. in pandya architecture always gopuram height is > than vimanam eg, meenakshi temple – madurai. In chola always vimanam hieght is greater than gopuram. eg brihadiswar temple tanjore. a small note that i know
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