Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Patna School of Painting sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Patna School of Painting (c. 1760 – early 20th Century), no earlier influence is recorded for it.
The Patna School of Painting (also Patna Qalaam, or Patna Kalam) is a style of Indian painting which existed in Bihar, India in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Patna School dealt almost exclusively with common people and their lifestyles, which helped the paintings gain in popularity. The principal centres of this style were in Patna, Danapur and Arrah.
The art historian, Mildred Archer said of the Patna School of painting that: "It marks the fusion of Eastern and Western taste which occurred in the nineteenth century and mirrors the interests and artistic fashions of the period. The school is, in fact, a summary of the complicated interplay of European and Indian cultures in the nineteenth century." Read more ↗