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
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
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/
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