Ragamala paintings

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

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Ragamala painting is a particular genre of Indian miniature painting, mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries. Ragamala means 'garland of ragas'. A raga is a particular mood, colour, season, time of day, or emotional state. A ragamala painting evokes one of these ragas in pictorial form. There are six main 'parent' ragas, corresponding to the six Indian seasons: summer, monsoon, autumn, early winter, winter and spring. Each of the male parent ragas has five 'wives' (ragini), and eight 'sons'…

Painting, lady and peacock, mor priya, by Mola Ram, opaque watercolour on paper, Dugadda (Garhwal), dated 1775

Todi Ragini, Second Wife of Hindol Raga, Folio from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies), Unknown, India, Madhya Pradesh, Raghogarh, circa 1775-1800, Drawings, Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Todi Ragini is the second wife of Hindola Raga in the predominant ragamala (garland of melodies) classification system generally known as the Rajasthani system.

These two leaves are classic seventeenth-century Malwa school paintings, one of the earliest and historically most important Rajput schools. At Mandu, the capital of Malwa, miniature painting can be traced back to the fifteenth century, when it developed as a variant of the Jain style of western India. By the seventeenth century, however, this purely Malwa style had evolved. Simple geometric compositions predominate, and colors are bold and highly symbolic, while naturalism and volume are…

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