Painting and art

The illustrated life-stories of Guru Nanak, the oldest Sikh painting.

When Ranjit Singh took Kangra, the hill painters of Guler and Kangra began painting Sikh courts and the Gurus.

Indian and European artists who painted Ranjit Singh's durbar, from Kehar Singh to August Schoefft.

The painted walls of Harmandir Sahib, where Sikh artists invented a garden of flowers, birds and beasts.

Amritsar artists who painted trades, castes and festivals for British buyers after 1849.

Miniature painter of the Patiala court who carried the old Mughal style into modern Lahore.

Painter from Wazirabad who began painting theatre sets and became the great painter of Punjabi village life.

Painter of Amritsar known for romantic landscapes and paintings of Sikh subjects.

The painter of Andretta whose portraits of the Gurus hang in nearly every Sikh home.

The Sikh-Hungarian painter who became the founder of modern Indian art and died in Lahore at 28.

Painter born in London who founded the fine arts department of the University of the Punjab in 1940 and trained generations of Lahore artists.

Painter, sculptor and architect from Jhelum, deaf from childhood, whose paintings of Partition are among its strongest images.

The painted trucks of Pakistan: every inch covered in flowers, birds, poetry, heroes and mirrors.

Painter from Lyallpur who left banking for art, and painted the crowds, bandwallahs and grief of modern India.

Delhi painter, daughter of the writer Ajeet Cour, whose work draws on Sikh history, the 1984 killings and the women of the Punjab.

The blue and white glazed tiles and pots that cover the shrines of Multan and Uch.