Raja Ravi Varma, born on April 29, 1848, in Kilimanoor, Travancore (present-day Kerala, India), emerged from a family steeped in scholarly and literary traditions. His mother, Uma Ambabayi Thampuratty ...
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Artist Raja Ravi Varma and his quiet revolution
New Delhi: Raja Ravi Varma revolutionised art by blending the divine with the mundane, challenging traditional norms. Accused of diluting the purity of deities, the 19th-century artist faced criticism ...
Whether Ram, Vishnu, or Lakshmi, the heroic warriors of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Shakuntala of Kalidasa, the King of Baroda, or Swami Vivekananda, there is one name that brings them all under the ...
In 1907, barely a year after the death of the celebrated Raja Ravi Varma, the press in Madras was all praise for another artist with the same last name. As much as “the people of this country" were in ...
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