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Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam: [ɾaːdʒaː ɾɐʋi ʋɐrm(ː)ɐ]) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906 [3] [4]) was an Indian painter and artist.His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.
This print from the Ravi Varma Press derived from a painting by Raja Ravi Varma follows the iconographic description of Saraswati as found in the 50th chapter of the Agni Purana. She is described in the Agni Purana as being attired in white and playing the Veena with two arms and holding an aksha-mala (a string of pearls) and a pustaka (book ...
Shakuntala or Shakuntala looking for Dushyanta is an 1898 epic painting by Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.. Ravi Varma depicts Shakuntala, an important character of Mahabharata, pretending to remove a thorn from her foot, while actually looking for her husband/lover, Dushyantha, while her friends tease her and call her bluff.
This painting by Raja Ravi Varma was immediately thereafter exhibited at the Bombay Art Society Exhibition which was held in March, 1901. The painting went on to win the prize given the 'His Highness the Late Martanda Varma, First Prince of Travancore Prize' for the best landscape in oils, with figures, by a native from India in a sum of Rs. 70.
The gallery has 15 original works by the Roerichs [7] and 43 original works by Raja Ravi Varma. [8] Ravi Varma's rare pencil sketches are also displayed at the gallery. [ 8 ] The paintings of Ravi Varma which were earlier kept at Chithralaya in Kilimanoor were given to the art gallery by the Kilimanoor Palace as a permanent loan in 1941. [ 9 ]
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