Asavari Ragini
1605
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1605
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Asavari Ragini is a 1605 paint by Nasiruddin, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A woman in a peacock-feather skirt bends over a snake. She feeds it flowers in a rocky valley. The colors glow soft reds and greens. This is a page from a ragamala. Each page shows a raga, a kind of Hindu song. Here, Asavari ragini wears tribal clothes and stands near a snake. Look up Nasiruddin to see more of his work.
A painting from a 1605 ragamala series depicts Asavari ragini as a tribal woman in a peacock-feather skirt feeding flowers to a snake in a rocky landscape, attributed to the artist Nasiruddin and created at Chawand, the former capital of Mewar. The work, rendered in opaque watercolour on paper, illustrates the musical mode Asavari and is part of the earliest dated Rajasthani ragamala, marking a significant point in the history of Rajasthani painting.
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Nisardin (fl. 1585–1609, also known as Nasiruddin) was an artist who is credited to have painted the earliest dated set of Rajasthani miniature paintings, called Chawand Ragamala. It is uncertain if he belonged to the…
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