Online Paintings

The Bhimbhetka is a place in Madhya Pradesh where primitive paintings are discovered in numerous caves. The paintings span the period of 600 years initial from upper Paleolithic to early historic and medieval times. The early men used blunt stone tool to scratch and used branch and twigs as their brush. For colors they used different minerals as fine as stone, earth and coals. Cave Paintings of Ajanta and Ellora refers to the Buddhist monks who working painters to draw the life and wisdom of Lord Buddha and Buddha Jataka on the ramparts of Ajanta caves, where they painted the figures along with their costumes and jewelries in good-looking colors and style while in Ellora caves the paintings are mostly of Hindu deities.

Mogul Paintings depicts indo-Islamic method of painting and flourished in the ateliers of Mogul emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shahjahan, which describes neatly the court life of Mogul royal society. Tanjore Painting is classical South Indian form of painting which evolved in the village of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu and well identified for its richness and compression of forms and vivid colors.