Gujari ragini
1680
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1680
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Gujari ragini is a 1680 paint by Unknown, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A woman plays a vina, a stringed instrument, in this painting. She looks sad, and the mood is melancholy. This painting is part of a series that combines music and art to tell stories about love. The series is called ragamala, and it explores the joys and sorrows of love. You can learn more about this style of art at the museum: Victoria and Albert Museum.
A painting on paper from the ragamala tradition shows a woman seated outdoors playing a vina, accompanied by a maid with a fly-whisk, while two peacocks stand nearby; to the right, another maid arranges a bed inside a chamber, and above, a similar scene appears on a rooftop terrace. The image illustrates the musical mode Gujari ragini, part of a series that personifies ragas and raginis as lovers expressing varied emotional states.
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