In February 1906, the 10-year-old rani of Travancore was taken to the upstairs window of an old palace. Standing below in the courtyard were two boys, one a college-goer, the other his teenaged ...

Ravi Varma, who had been ill, collapsed and breathed his last on October 2, 1906 in the palace, before completing this painting. The Kilimanoor Palace Trust had unveiled the paintings The Parsi ...

Here we mention 5 paintings by Raja Ravi Varma that leave people in awe. One of Ravi Varma’s most famous and acclaimed paintings is ‘Shakunthala’. It shows a scene from the Mahabharata where ...

Like all other Ravi Varma paintings, this is a fine work! It's a brilliant composition based on photographs that were taken of the Maharani when she was just three years old. Ravi Varma has painted ...

Today, on Raja Ravi Varma’s 176th birth anniversary ... Readers learn about the European realist techniques Varma used and how prints of his paintings made it to middle-class homes through ...

Most paintings that belonged to the archival section ... the gallery’s small yet brilliant collection of the original works by Raja Ravi Varma (which were conserved in 2020) are an easy crowd ...

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.

BENGALURU: Raja Ravi Varma’s Lady with the Lamp or Galaxy of Musicians best explains the work of the legendary artist. The paintings are snippets from the life of a woman in her home or show the ...

Ganesh, 48, goes a step further to analyse how people understood the paintings and how it shaped their outlook and ideology. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Raja Ravi Varma’s ‘Lady with the Lamp’ or ‘ ...

Ravi Varma brilliantly depicts the tension in the air, with Rama's stern expression and the turbulent waves. With bold and vibrant colours, the painting ‘The Coronation of Rama’ is a visual ...