Ragamala paintings

Sri Raga - Miniature Painting, Deccan school, Ragamala series, 19th Century. Digital Walters.

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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

Prositapatika Nayika, disconsolate lady, Nayak Nayika, opaque watercolour on paper, Nurpur, ca. 1770-1780.

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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Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala is an object in the NMAA collection.

Ragamala Album: Sarangi Ragini