Raja Ravi Varma's paintings are nothing short of iconic, but if you dig a little deeper, you'll find a treasure trove of ...

When we talk about Indian art, paintings, and the likes, one of the first names to come to mind is of Raja Ravi Varma. One of the most celebrated and foreign techniques. He brought Indian art into ...

Raja Ravi Varma's art was a fusion of traditional Indian themes but with Western techniques. The themes, characters, the women, were all very much Indian and characters of religious importance.

Often capturing the daily life of women from aristocratic and noble families with his paintings, Raja Ravi Varma'sReclining Nair Lady depicts an unknown lady leisurely reading a book while her ...

Love him or hate him, it’s hard to ignore Raja Ravi Varma, whose works pervade a national consciousness. His rendition of Indian women — whether inspired by mythology or borrowed from reality ...

Performed by dance company Apsara Arts, The Heroines of Raja Ravi Varma brought 14 of his well-known paintings to life through the art of Abhinaya, with all the vibrancy and the passion the ...

Rupika Chawla, art curator and author, in her book Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India, writes: "He underwent a process of conscious selection of themes, genre and medium in the paintings ...

Few today who admire the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma—whose birth anniversary occurred last week—think of the men and women who feature in some of his most famous paintings.

Ravi Varma had returned to his home and started working on his unfinished paintings after he wound up his press in Bombay upon hearing about the death of his brother, Raja Raja Varma.

India's influential king of "kitsch" broke rules and blazed a trail. Kalpana Sunder explores his remarkable life, work and legacy.