Ragamala paintings

Accession Number: 1990:564 Display Title: Two women from the harem of Tana Shah of Golconda Suite Name: Media & Support: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Creation Date: ca. 1800 Creation Place/Subject: India State-Province: Andhra Pradesh Court: Hyderabad School: Deccani Display Dimensions: 9 11/16 in. x 5 29/32 in. (24.6 cm x 15 cm) Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Label Copy: Marks: inscription in sky Bibliography: Repository: The San Diego Museum of Art

gouache heightened with gold on paper, gold and yellow borders with black rules, gold painted marginspainting: 24.2 by 14

"Sarang Ragini". Probably Deccani, Golconda or Hyderbad, circa 1700. "A young maiden reaches up to grasp a branch of a sapling as her sakhi (confidante) plays a sarangi - a small stringed instrument. Against a striking emerald-green background, their feet not quite touching the swath of landscape below." Per Sotheby's, unusual iconography for this ragini.

Ragamala Paintings are a series of illustrative paintings depicting Ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India. #Ruyal #SS14

Ragamala (mala or garland of Ragas) paintings, also known as a Ragachitra (a Chitra or pictorial representation of Raga) are a tradition of paintings that bloomed in the medieval period, in courts and

Deccani Miniature Ragamala Album (W. 669 - The Digital Walters) 18th-19th centuries

One of the most perplexing blanks in the history of Indian painting is what happened to painting in the Deccan, a prime art­producing area on the high plateau in the south­central region of the country, between the downfall of the Islamic sultanates in 1686 and 1687 and the re­emergence of Hyderabad, when that city became capital of the revived Deccani kingdom, in 1763

Asavari Ragini. Rajasthan, possibly Nagaur, early 18th century.

BUNDI, RAJASTHAN, NORTH WEST INDIA, CIRCA 1670

To celebrate the coming of spring, Krishna sits on a swing with his beloved Radha as their companions, the cowherd boys and milkmaids, play music, dance, admire the idyllic couple, and keep their

Todi Ragini Subject: Indian Miniature Rajasthani Painting Paint Material: Opaque Watercolors Base Material: Paper (unframed) Size: 9.5 in. wide

INDIA, MARWAR, CIRCA 1750

Ragamala Painting, Chamba Kalam of Pahari School of Art, circa 1760 CE, Bhuri Singh Museum, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh