Key Points
The royal atelier at Udaipur, the Sisodias capital from 1615 onwards, produced paintings spanning several genres but was especially prolific in the field of portraiture..
Mewar painting was unique in its evolution as a distinct style following Mewars steady resistance of Mughal subjugation while older Rajput painting traditions such as the Malwa school were incorporating elements of the Mughal miniature tradition by the beginning of the eighteenth century, and newer schools like those of Bikaner and Kishangarh emerged from it...
Sangram Singhs rule and that of his successor Jagat Singh II (r. 173451) are considered to form the last significant phase of paintings produced to illustrate religious manuscripts within the Mewar school...
The remainder of the nineteenth century, marked by the increasing political influence of the British in the region, saw stagnation in the artistic legacy of the Mewar school as paintings continued to follow the conventions set a century earlier..
Today, works from the Mewar school such as manuscript illustrations, portraits and tamasha paintings are housed in museums and private collections across the world, including the City Palace Museum and the Government Museum in Udaipur; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York...
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