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Art history, side by side

From Ashoka's pillar at Lumbini to the Kathmandu Triennale — and what the rest of the world was making at the same time. Toggle regions to compare Nepal with South Asia and the world, scroll through the centuries, and click any event or artist for the full story with images from Wikipedia.

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Prehistory & Antiquity

Early Common Era

Medieval

Early Modern

Medieval

Early Modern

19th Century

Early 20th Century

Post-War Modern

Contemporary

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Nepali artists on Wikipedia

36 artists · tap any card

Lascaux cave paintings

Pyramids of Giza & Old Kingdom art

Indus Valley civilization art

The Parthenon & Classical Greek sculpture

Ashoka's pillar at Lumbini

Ajanta cave paintings

Gandhara: Greco-Buddhist art

Gupta 'golden age' sculpture

Changu Narayan & the Licchavi golden age

Sigiriya frescoes

Swayambhunath stupa

Hagia Sophia consecrated

The Bamiyan Buddhas

Budhanilkantha & Licchavi masterworks

Tang dynasty cosmopolitan art

Chola bronzes

Earliest paubhas & illuminated manuscripts

Kasthamandap — the house that named a city

Gothic cathedrals & stained glass

Araniko carries Newar art to the Yuan court

The Malla era — flowering of Newar art

Leonardo paints the Mona Lisa

Coral stone mosques

Mughal miniature painting

Krishna Mandir & Patan Durbar Square

Dzong art & the thirteen traditional arts

Taj Mahal

Baroque drama

Nyatapola — Nepal's tallest pagoda

Shah unification — end of the Malla patronage

Raj Man Singh Chitrakar — Nepal's first modern painter

Hokusai's Great Wave

Bhajuman Chitrakar travels to Europe; Rana palaces go neoclassical

First Impressionist exhibition

Raja Ravi Varma

The Bengal School revival

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Surrealist Manifesto

Maskey & Tej Bahadur Chitrakar — Nepal's first art-school moderns

Amrita Sher-Gil

Zainul Abedin's Famine Sketches

The '43 Group

Progressive Artists' Group

Abstract Expressionism

Sadequain & calligraphic modernism

Lain Singh Bangdel brings abstraction to Nepal

Pop Art

NAFA — Nepal's first national art institution

SKIB-71 — Nepal's modernist quartet

Siddhartha Art Gallery opens

Mithila art moves from wall to canvas

Patan Museum — a world model

The paubha renaissance

Destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas

Dhaka Art Summit launches

Earthquake & the rebuilding of heritage

Kathmandu Triennale & the global stage

Pakistan's biennale moment

The digital turn — NFTs, AI and immersive art

Nepali artists on Wikipedia

Araniko

Raj Man Singh Chitrakar

Bhajuman Chitrakar

Chandra Man Singh Maskey

Tej Bahadur Chitrakar

Lain Singh Bangdel

Amar Chitrakar

Kalidas Shrestha

Thakur Prasad Mainali

Manuj Babu Mishra

Gehendra Man Amatya

Uttam Nepali

Laxman Shrestha

Shashi Bikram Shah

Sushma Shimkhada

Premman Chitrakar

Deepak Shimkhada

Batsa Gopal Vaidya

Shanker Raj Singh Suwal

Kiran Manandhar