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Miniature Painting in Western India*
(12th-17th Century A.D.)
W. NORMAN BROWN
Before the time of the miniature paintings in India of the Rajput and Mughal styles, that is, before the late sixteenth century, there have been found in that country only two styles of miniature painting. One of these flourished in Nepal and northern Bengal, with dated specimens starting in the eleventh century'; the other in Gujarat, Kathiawar, and Rajputana, and is now known to have been existing in the early part of the twelfth century. These two schools of painting seem to have had
* The following titles make a fairly complete bibliography of the works on this school of painting :
Brown, W. N.,
(1) in Indian Art and Letters, pp. 16ff., 1929. (2) in Eastern Art, pp. 167-206, 1930.
(3) in Parnassus, pp. 34-36, November, 1930. Coomaraswamy, A.K., (1) in Journ. Indian Art, no. 127, 1914.
(2) Cat. Indian Coll. Mus. Fine Arts, Boston, pt. 4,
Jaina paintings and manuscripts, 1924. History of Indian and Indonesian Art, pp. 119-121,
1927. (4) in Bull. Mus. Fine Arts, pp. 7f., Feb., 1930.
in Eastern Art, pp. 236-40, 1930. Gangoly, 0. C., (1) in Ostasiatische Zeitschr., N.F.2, 1925.
(2) in Quart. Journ. Andhra Hist. Res. Soc., vol. 4,
pp. 86-88.
in Indian Art and Letters N., pp. 104-115, 1930. Ghose, Ajit,
in Artibus Asiae, pp. 187ff. and 278ff, 1927. von Glasenapp, H.,
final plate in his Jainismus, 1925. Huttemann, W.,
in Bassler Archiv, vol. 2, p. 2, 1913. Mehta, N. C.,
(1) in Rupam, 1925. (2) in his Studies in Indian Painting, 1927. (3) Gujarati painting in the fifteenth century, The
India Society, London, 1913. A discussion of the Vasantavilasa paintings in 37 pages, with black and white reproductions of 16 miniatures.
in Rupa-Lekha, no. 3, pp. 3-9, July, 1929. Nahar, P., & Ghose, K., Epitome of Jainism, 1927. Shah, C J.,
Jainism in North India, pls. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 14, 1932.
The numbers in parentheses in the following footnotes refer to the corresponding numbers as above.
See Coomaraswamy (3), pp. 115, 146. 2 Brown (1).
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