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Ascetic in a landscape, illustrating the musical mode Bangali Ragini

  • Description

    The mode Bangali is visualised as an ascetic who sits in meditation holding his mala (beads) beside a small linga shrine to Shiva. His pastoral dwelling is shown as a colourful pavilion.

  • Details

    Series
    Garland of Ragas
    Associated place
    AsiaIndiaDeccan north Deccan (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1675
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 55.9 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
    painting 26.3 x 22 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2001.
    Accession no.
    EA2001.32
  • Further reading

    Topsfield, A., ‘A Dispersed Ragamala from the Deccan’, Naval Krishna and Manu Krishna, eds, The Ananda-vana of Indian Art: Dr Anand Krishna Felicitation Volume (Varanasi: Indica Books, 2004), p. 325, illus. p. 326 pl. 10

Glossary

Ragini

  • 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.

Location

    • First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India

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