Ragamala
Subtitle: paintings from India : from the Claudio Moscatelli Collection
By: Catherine Glynn, Robert Skelton, Anna L. Dallapiccola
Contributors: Skelton, Robert; Dallapiccola, Anna L. (Anna Libera), 1944-; Dulwich Picture Gallery; Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums
Publisher: Philip Wilson; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780856676987
Subjects: Rāgamālā painting; Exhibitions; Malerei; Miniatur; Ragamala; Miniature painting
Description: Ragamala is a unique form of Indian miniature painting developed by combining a variety of sources including musical codes and accompanying poetry to indicate the time of day, or season, in which the melody should be performed. This new book, and the exhibition it accompanies, presents a fine and rare collection of twenty-four ragamala from the collection of Claudio Moscatelli. They are highly colored, very delicate, and beautifully executed miniatures dating from 1605 to c.1770. The book establishes the importance of ragamala's place in the history of world art and celebrates its literary content, its association with music, and its regional styles, and provides an interpretation of its symbolism in a way that makes it accessible to a contemporary audience.
Notes: Published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery and Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012 and Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jan. 25 2012-May 27, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96).
Table of contents: title: Ragamala painting, a brief introduction  -- Anna L. Dallapiccola; title: Ragamalas in the Deccan and what happens when ragas migrate without their texts  -- Robert Skelton; title: The Moscatelli Rajput and Pahari ragamalas  -- Catherine Glynn; title: Ragamala catalogue  -- Catherine Glynn & Robert Skelton; title: Ragamala systems: painter's system ragamala, Kshemakarna's ragamala.