Showing posts with label Basohli Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basohli Painting. Show all posts

A Noble Lady and a Brahman Bull, Illustrating the Musical Mode Bhairavi Ragini - Basohli Painting, c1680

A Noble Lady and a Brahman Bull, Illustrating the Musical Mode Bhairavi Ragini - Basohli Painting, c1680

The musical mode Bhairavi is visualised as a noble lady seated in a palace chamber stroking the muzzle of a white brahman bull, which is captivated and subdued by her presence. A maid standing in the half-open doorway behind makes a gesture of wonderment.

Medium: Gouache on Paper
Source: ashmolean.org

Moon God Holding a Lotus and Riding a Blackbuck within the Face of a Full Moon - Ragamala Series, Basohli c1680

Moon God Holding a Lotus and Riding a Blackbuck within the Face of a Full Moon - Ragamala Series, Basohli c1680

Medium: Gouache on paper
Ragamala (‘Garland of Ragas’) paintings were believed to depict the essential qualities of the ragas or musical modes, which in the Punjab Hills were grouped with their ‘wives’ and ‘sons’ (ragini and ragaputra) in extended series of 84 pictures. Here the mode Chandra (moon), which is performed in the hours after midnight, is shown as the moon god holding a lotus and riding a blackbuck within the face of a full moon.

Source: ashmolean.org/

Bhadrakali, Destroyer of the Universe - Basholi Painting, c1660-70


Medium: gouache with gold, silver, and beetle-wing case on paper
Source: jameelcentre.ashmolean.org

Siddha Lakhsmi with Kali - 17th Century Basholi Painting, Punjab Hills India


Medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, silver, and beetle wing cases on paper
Date: ca. 1660-1670
Source: brooklynmuseum.org

Watercolour Painting of Durga - Late 17th Century Himachal Pradesh, Basholi

Medium: Watercolor, Opaque watercolor and silver on paper
Source: collectionsonline.lacma.org