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{{short description|Indian pictorial art form}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2017}}

[[File:Nala Damayanti.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Nala]]-[[Damayanti]] theme, from the [[Mahabharat]] in Pahari style]]
'''Pahari painting''' (literally meaning a painting from the mountainous regions: ''pahar'' means a mountain in [[Hindi]]) is an umbrella term used for a form of [[Indian painting]], done mostly in miniature forms, originating from Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during 17th-19th century, notably [[Basohli]], Mankot, [[Nurpur State|Nurpur]], [[Chamba State|Chamba]], [[Kangra State|Kangra]], [[Guler State|Guler]], [[Mandi State|Mandi]], and [[Garhwal Kingdom|Garhwal]].<ref>[http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/asia_features/sikhism/art/hindu/index.html Hindu Hill Kingdoms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330034200/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/asia_features/sikhism/art/hindu/index.html |date=30 March 2010 }} ''[[V&A Museum]]''.</ref><ref>[http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/art/pahari.htm Pahari] ''Kamat''.</ref> [[Nainsukh]] was a famous master of the mid-18th century, followed by his family workshop for another two generations.

==Origin and area==
[[File:Radha celebrating Holi, c1788.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Radha]] celebrating ''[[Holi]]'', ca 1788.]]
[[File:Sudama bows at the glimpse of Krishna's golden palace in Dwarka. ca 1775-1790 painting.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Sudama]] bows at the glimpse of Krishna's golden palace in [[Dwarka]]. ca 1775-1790 painting.]]

The Pahari school developed and flourished during 17th-19th centuries stretching from [[Jammu]] to [[Garhwal Kingdom|Garhwal]], in the sub-[[Himalayas|Himalayan]] [[India]], through [[Himachal Pradesh]]. Each created stark variations within the genre, ranging from bold intense [[Basohli Painting]], originating from [[Basohli]] in [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]], to the delicate and lyrical [[Kangra paintings]], which became synonymous to the style before other schools of paintings developed, and finally to the poetic and cinematic representations in [[Garhwal Kingdom|Garhwali]] [[Paintings]] by [[Mola Ram]]. The Kangra style reached its pinnacle with paintings of [[Works of Jayadeva#Pahari paintings|Radha and Krishna]], inspired by [[Jayadeva|Jayadev]]'s [[Gita Govinda]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8EGUpX1O0hoC&pg=RA2-PA62&dq=Kangra+painting&as_brr=0 Pahari centres] ''Arts of India: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Dance and Handicraft'', by Krishna Chaitanya. Published by Abhinav Publications, 1987. {{ISBN|81-7017-209-8}}. ''Page 62''.</ref>

Pahari painting grew out of the [[Mughal painting]], though this was patronized mostly by the Rajput kings who ruled many parts of the region, and gave birth to a new idiom in Indian painting.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.culturopedia.com/Painting/pahari.html |title=Pahari |access-date=28 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211185646/http://www.culturopedia.com/Painting/pahari.html |archive-date=11 December 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Schools of Pahari painting==
* [[Haripur Guler#Guler Paintings|Guler School]]
* [[Kangra paintings|Kangra School]]
* [[Chamba, Himachal Pradesh#Chamba miniature paintings|Chamba School]]<ref>[http://www.culturenorthindia.com/hp/fine_arts.htm Pahari Paintings] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022043908/http://culturenorthindia.com/hp/fine_arts.htm |date=22 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.dalhousie.net/paharipaintings.htm Pahari paintings]</ref>
* [[Garhwal Division|Garhwal]] School
*[[Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh]]

==Famous examples==
*[[Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion]]

==Further reading==
* ''Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India'' by B. N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 38, Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India (1992), pp. 3–391 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1522698]
* ''Wall Paintings of The Western Himalayas'', by Mira Seth. Publications Division. 1976.
* ''Garhwal Paintings'', by Mukandi Lal. Publications Division. 1982.
* ''Punjab Painting - Study in Art and Culture'', by R P Srivastava. Abhinav Publications. 1983. {{ISBN|0-391-02560-0}}.
* ''Centres of Pahari Painting'', by Chandramani Singh. Published by Abhinav Publications, 1982. {{ISBN|0-391-02412-4}}.
* ''Portfolio - The Bhagavata Paintings from Mankot'', by Karl Khandalavala. [[Lalit Kala Akademi]]. 1981.
* ''On the origins of Pahari Painting'', by Vishwa Chander Ohri, Joseph Jacobs. Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 1991. {{ISBN|81-85182-53-1}}.
* ''Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-state by B.N. Goswamy. Niyogi Books. 2011. {{ISBN|978-81-89738-76-1}}
* ''Nala and Damayanti: A Great Series of Paintings of an Old Indian Romance. Niyogi Books. 1st Edition. 2015. {{ISBN|978-93-83098-89-7}}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Kossak, Steven. (1997). [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/12335/rec/74 ''Indian court painting, 16th-19th century.''] Metropolitan Museum of Art. {{ISBN|0870997831}}

==External links==
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*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/12335/rec/74 ''Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th Century''] from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[[Category:Himalayan art]]
[[Category:Schools of Indian painting]]
[[Category:Culture of Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:Culture of Himachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:Culture of Jammu and Kashmir]]

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