Ragini

I got a Google referral for 'visual embodiments of ragas.' These are called Ragamalas and Raginis. Here is an explanation, from Indian Paintings from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts:

Ragamala paintings are part of an extraordinary artistic union of paintings, poetry, and music. Ragas, the musical basis of the relationship, are very old musical forms that over time have been classified into "families" of themes and modes. They evoke certain moods, are performed at specific times of the day, and they are considered personalities (heroes, heroines, or deities).
Poets began writing about ragas in the 14th century. Their verses interpreting this music were almost as varied and wide-ranging as the ragas themselves. Painters in turn portrayed the poems, capturing the moods or personality of the ragas' characters or themes. These paintings made up sets of Ragamalas ("Garlands of Ragas"), usually in groups of thirty-six or forty-two.

And also:

Ragamalas are organized in several systems and grouped in families consisting of a male raga at the head with several raginis, or wives and often include sons called ragaputras, and daughters or ragaputris. (from Princes, Poets and Paladins)

And:

Ragamala paintings... are attempts to make an abstract thought concrete. A raga, an Indian musical form, is an audible form created to express emotions, sensations, or feelings. Similiarly, ragamala paintings are emotions expressed through a plastic form. Some ragamalas express the temperment of seasons, others beauty, or love and devotion. The verbal descriptions, which are often found as part of the paintings, express the spirit of the raga. They describe the subject, the characterstics of the raga and the literal expression of the painting through the verses. (from Hurst Gallery)

Here are some examples of Raginis, from here and there on the Net:

Ragini Karnati (circa 1790), from Chandra and David's Homepage

Bikaner, Patamanjari Ragini, ca. 1640, from Va. Museum of Fine Arts

Ragini Bangala, c 1725, from AIIS, Varanasi
(one of four Raginis on this page; and what looks like a very interesting site)

Todi Ragini, from Va. Museum of Fine Arts

Kausa Ragaputra, Punjab Hills, Mankot, c. 1700 -- The hot intensity of mid-seventeenth and early eighteenth-century paintings produced in the courts of the Punjab Hills at Mankot, Basohli, Bahu, and Kulu, is evident in this Ragamala painting of a princely character and his consort seated on a carpet, each with a bird perched on a finger. This ragaputra is the "son" of the raga Malkos or Malavakasika whose iconography often contains a seated lord accompanied by his consort. From Harvard University Art Museums (one of two raginis from 'Princes, Poets and Paladins')

There are more Raginis here,
here (seven Raginis), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here (a number of Raginis), and here (several Raginis).