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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.
Damayanti (Sanskrit: दमयन्ती, romanized: Damayantī) is a figure in a love story found in the Vana Parva book of the Mahabharata. [1] She is the daughter of Bhima (not the Pandava) and a princess of the Vidarbha Kingdom, who marries King Nala of the Nishadha kingdom.
Raja Ravi Varma was a celebrated Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art for a number of aesthetic and broader social reasons. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Raja Ravi Varma: Year: 1889: Type: Oil on Canvas: Location: Jaganmohan Palace: Galaxy of Musicians is an 1889 painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. Description.
Rang Rasiya is an adaptation of the biographical novel Raja Ravi Varma authored by the Marathi writer Ranjit Desai. Mehta thought that Varma was the most fascinating artist of that era and his character, persona and paintings. He was fascinated with Ravi Varma right from his days at Film and Television Institute of India. After reading Desai's ...
Nair lady Adorning Her Hair is an 1873 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The painting depicts a domestic scene in which a Nair woman adorning her hair with a garland of flowers in front of a mirror. The painting was notable for being the first major award-winning work that Ravi Varma had completed.
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.
A Reclining Nair lady is a 1902 painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. [1] The painting features a recumbent Nair woman, [2] [3] with a book open in front of her while attended by a maid. [2] Varma draw this painting inspired from Edward Manet's 1863 painting Olympia.