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Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series
1640
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W: 19.7 x 14.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 13/16 in)
- Culture
- Himalayan peoples
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
A ragamala (garland of ragas, or musical modes) is a unique genre of painting that may be termed "pictorial music". It represents a series of musical modes that correspond to emotional states generally associated with specific times of day or seasons of the year. Musical modes may be male ragas or female raginis, and each is expressed in terms of human love.
