It is a school in the Rajasthani style developed in Mewar (Rajasthan).
It is characterized by simple bright colour and direct emotional appeal
One of the outstanding painters of the early phase was the artist Sahibdin (drew Raagmala).
Allah Baksh, Maharana Jai Singh’s court painter, had illustrated the Mahabharata with 4,000 year old Mewari miniature paintings.
Miniature painting is a small, finely wrought portrait executed on vellum, prepared card, copper, or ivory.
The name is derived from the minium, or red lead, used by the medieval illuminators