LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song. This exhibition will be one of the first to be dedicated solely to the ragamala theme, displaying a rare grouping of 24 objects from the Claudio Moscatelli Collection. The varied literary, social and poetic influences of ragamala painting will be explored and it will be the first opportunity to see Indian painting alongside the extensive European Old Master collection at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Great variety can be seen in the Claudio Moscatelli Collection of loose folios from multiple ragamala albums. The collection covers the whole of the Indian subcontinent: from the plains of Rajasthan, to the Pahari region in the foothills of the Himalayas, down to the Deccan and up to the mountains of Nepal. For 500 years it was one of the most prolific genres of Indian miniature painting, yet the term ‘ragamala’