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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Raja Ravi Varma’s well-known paintings were brought to life ... Not everyday that you see Damayanti yearn for her love or Yasodha become the envy of all the women i. E-PAPER; NATION; WORLD; STATES.

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.

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

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 ...

The first book (The Shaping of the Artist) of a six-book series on Raja Ravi Varma’s life and legacy is set to be released on April 9 at Lukshmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara. Here's a sneak peek at ...

The divine figures in Raja Ravi Varma's celebrated paintings were real people—often his own family, a fact we rarely consider today In February 1906, the 10-year-old rani of Travancore was taken ...

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 ...