Blindman's Bluff: Page From a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu), ca. 1715?20, India (Rajasthan, Mewar), Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 9 7/16 x 10 7/8 in. (24 x 27. 6 cm), Paintings, During the eighteenth century, artists continued to use the bright colors, flat shapes, frontal compositions, and stylizations typical of seventeenth-century Mewari painting- but only in illustrations of religious and literary texts, possibly because the old style was considered well suited to the mythological realm