CBSE Class 12 Fine Arts — Chapter Summaries

The manuscript painting tradition shows how painting developed through illustrated texts, religious manuscripts, and portable folios. A major foundation of Indian painting is the Chitrasutra, found in the third Khanda of the Vishnudharmottara Purana, a fifth century text. The chapter explains painti…

The Rajasthani Schools of Painting developed in the princely kingdoms and thikanas of Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These schools include Mewar, Bundi, Kota, Bikaner, Kishangarh, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Malwa, each with its own style, themes …

Mughal painting is the style of miniature painting that developed in the northern Indian subcontinent in the sixteenth century and continued till the mid-nineteenth century. It grew through a blend of indigenous Indian, Persian, and later European influences. The Mughal emperors valued painting as a…