Lapis Blue Wall Art

Lapis Blue — 30 museum-grade prints in this palette. This fusion is built on the Baramasa-Sawan convention of the Pahari and Rajasthani courts, in which the monsoon month is staged as a marble terrace, storm clouds, lightning and dancing peacocks — usually carrying the mood of viraha, a heroine's longing for her absent beloved. The grammar here follows the Kangra Pahari school, prized within the Rajput miniature umbrella for soft green hills and lyrical naturalism. The Kishangarh school flourished in the mid-18th century under Raja Sawant Singh (the poet-prince 'Nagari Das'), whose master painter Nihal Chand fixed the idealized feminine profile now universally called Bani Thani — a name borrowed from a court singer-poet in the raja's circle. It belongs to the Rajput miniature umbrella of Rajasthan alongside Mewar, Bundi, Marwar, Amber and the Pahari Kangra school, all painted in mineral pigments — lapis, malachite, hingul vermillion, orpiment — and ochre 'gold' on burnished wasli paper, in flat symbolic perspective. The Baramasa ('twelve months') is a poetic cycle that pairs each month with a mood of love and a seasonal scene; Grishma, the high-summer month, is conventionally shown with fountains, water channels and khus-grass screens that cooled palace interiors. This treatment follows the Marwar school centred on Jodhpur, known within the Rajput miniature umbrella for intense saffron and deep-red desert grounds and a jewel-bright palette.

Updated 22 Jun 2026