It has the spectacular Rajput paintings on the ceilings.

The images suggest romantic landscapes, free-association doodles and Rajput paintings.

For instance, Krens bought a very large and expensive Rajput painting for the museum.

Jitendra Sahoo is a famous artist of Rajput painting.

Here, all is restraint and understatement; but then, a little farther along, the explosive note of Rajput painting is sounded again.

Interestingly, the basic ingredients of Rajput painting are also found, with different uses and meanings, in work from the Punjab.

The Kangra and Kullu schools of art are also part of Rajput painting.

Rajput painting, a style of Indian painting, evolved and flourished, during the 18th century, in the royal courts of Rajputana, India.

Episodes with dialogue from the Ramayana are enacted using painted figures of the characters in profile, which strongly resemble the 18th-century Indian tradition of Rajput painting.

Rajput paintings depict a number of themes, events of epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Krishna's life, beautiful landscapes, and humans.

But where Mogul work was usually secular, showing daily life lived at a high pitch of physical energy, Rajput painting is notable for its images of human and divine love.

Rajput Painting, by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Publisher B. R. Publishing Corporation, 2003.

Selections of the Museum's Rajput paintings from India, and thangkas, or Buddhist religious paintings, from Tibet and Nepal are well represented.

The mustard-colored field of "Miniature Illinois" might be taken as a vision of American "golden waves of grain," but the palette and decorative details bring Rajput painting to mind.

He went on to translate classical Indian dance forms and their iconography to dance movements, after studying the Rajput painting and Mughal painting styles at the British Museum.

This fascinating library, founded in 1900, contains a renowned collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, Mughal and Rajput paintings, and even the Quran inscribed in a book just 25mm wide.

These exhibitions have included the museum's extraordinary 1998 survey of Mughal-period Indian carpets, its recent show of Mughal and Rajput painting and, at the moment, "Courtly Radiance: Metalwork From Islamic India."

Using images from traditional Rajput painting but executed on New York City subway maps, Ms. Rathore explores what it is likely to be a Muslim visitor navigating an American culture in which she is suddenly, and irrationally, the enemy.

By that time, other schools of Indian painting had developed, including, in the royal courts of the Rajput kingdoms of Rajputana, Rajput painting and in the cities ruled by the British East India Company, the Company style under Western influence.

And in an icon called "Our Lady at Dabra Metmaq," painted three centuries later, when Ethiopia had finally turned away from Europe toward Asia, the Virgin resembles a Hindu goddess, painted against a ground of the red, yellow and vegetable green of Rajput paintings.

That path continues and concludes - at the Metropolitan, at any rate - on the Irving Galleries' mezzanine level (reached by staircase from the medieval gallery or the Khmer court), where an array of Nepali, Tibetan and Indian Rajput painting carries the collection into the 19th century.

Miniatures were the preferred medium of Rajput painting, but several manuscripts also contain Rajput paintings, and paintings were even done on the walls of palaces, inner chambers of the forts, havelies, particularly, the havelis of Shekhawait.