Home > Arts & Culture > Indian Paintings > National Art Gallery
National Art Gallery
National Art Gallery is an abode of beautiful paintings and handicrafts, especially those of Mughal and Rajasthani schoo

Share this Article:

National Art Gallery, DelhiNational Art Gallery , Delhi is integrated to the Pantheon complex, exhibiting several wonderful paintings of the sixteenth and eighteenth century of the Mughal and Rajasthani `gharanas`. National Art Gallery has a wonderful building, built of pink sandstones also houses antiquities of handicrafts of eleventh and twelfth centuries.

The National Art Gallery , Delhiwas built keeping in mind the famous Henry Irwin designs .In the year 1907, by T. Namberumal Chetty took the onus of building this gallery. The whole building of National Art Gallery is a storehouse of the some of the finest treasures of art and architecture in the city. Encouraged by the motives of Mughal architecture, the designing work is most notably exhibited on the front wall.

The National Art Gallery is on display for public appraisal. Except on Fridays and all the national holidays, the gallery is thronged with people from the locality as well as through out the country. Special fees are being sought from the people.


Share this Article:

Related Articles

More Articles in Indian Paintings


Paitkar Painting
Paitkar painting is one of the most popular and ancient paintings in Jharkhand. Paitkar painting is a folk painting found in East India in the form of scrolls.
Muruja Painting of Odisha
Muruja Painting of Odisha depicts the creativity and the varied forms of artistic expressions whose origin can be traced to several years back.
Folk Paintings of West Bengal
Folk paintings of Bengal are known as Pats and their creators are the patuas. The pats comprise pictures arranged in rectangular panels, usually dealing with mythological themes.
Kalighat Paintings
The Kalighat Paintings are watercolor paintings done on mill-made paper by the scroll painters.
Phad Paintings
Phad Painting is a style religious folk painting practiced in Rajasthan, which dazzles the art lover with its vivacity. It is regarded as one of the most sought after folk paintings in the world of art and culture.
Indian Folk Painting
Indian folk painting is the pictorial expression of rural painters, which expresses rustic culture of different regions and mostly inspired by Ramayana and Mahabharata.