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Wrestlers exercising, illustrating the musical mode Deshakh Ragini
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Description
The musical mode Deshakh is visualised as wrestlers or athletes exercising in a landscape. One swings an Indian club, another climbs a pole feet first, the third lifts a heavy weight.
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Details
- Series
- Garland of Ragas
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Bundi (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1670
- Material and technique
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 39.9 x 34 x 2 cm approx. (height x width x depth)
painting 29.8 x 23.9 cm approx. (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.120
Glossary
Ragini
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Ragini
Raga (feminine ragini) are musical modes, often represented by compositions of ladies, lovers, warriors, animals or gods, in series of Ragamala ('Garland of Ragas') paintings, a very popular artistic genre in north India and the Deccan c. 1500 - 1800.
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- Returned to lender
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