Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, is a public museum of North India having collections of Gandharan sculptures, sculptures from ancient and medieval India, Pahari and Rajasthani miniature paintings. It owes its existence to the partition of India. Prior to the partition, much of the collections of art objects, paintings and sculptures present here were housed in the Central Museum, Lahore, the then capital of Punjab. The museum has one of the largest collection of Gandharan artefacts in the world.
The Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh, India
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
The main Museum building
Gandhara Art Gallery of Chandigarh's Government Museum and Art Gallery
Rajput painting, painting of the regional Hindu courts during the Mughal era, roughly from the end of the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century. Traditionally, Rajput painting is further divided into Rajasthan and Pahari painting which flourished in two different areas "far apart from each other in terms of distance but all under the rule of Rajput chiefs, and bound together by a common culture".
Krishna lifts Mount Govardhan by Ustad Sahibdin. Bikaner, c. 1690. British Museum.
A King converses, Folio from the Kalpa Sūtra and Kalakacharya Katha. Gujarat, 1411. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Krishna defeats Trinavarta, folio from the "Dispersed" Bhagavata Purana. North India, c. 1520. Freer Gallery of Art.
Chanda talking to a Friend, Folio from a Chandayana. Probably Delhi – Jaunpur belt, c. 1525–1575. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.