Aug 5, 2019
Gauri Ragini, First Wife of Malkos Raga, Folio from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies), India, ca. 1625-1650
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Provenance: Gift of Paul F. Walter
M.87.278.14
Ragamala paintings are a series of illustrative paintings from medieval India based on Ragamala or the "Garland of Ragas", depicting various Indian musical modes called Ragas.
A raga or raag ( literally "coloring, tingeing, dyeing") is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode. Rāginī (Devanagari: रागिनी) is a term for the "feminine" counterpart of a "masculine" rāga.
[text source: @wikipedia]
Check out: Ragamala Paintings in the Cornell University Digital Collections