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Raja Ravi Varma
1848-1906, Indian painter. He was the most important and one of the earliest Indian artists of the 19th century to work in oil paints. The subjects of his paintings were often mythological, but they were produced in a European historicist style. He absorbed the influence of such French 19th-century academic painters as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Boulanger and of Indian contemporary popular theatre, specializing in the type of mythological paintings that found favour with Indian rajas and British administrators. His successful exploitation (from 1894) of the lithographic reproduction of his paintings ensured, for the first time in India, that the work of an individual artist could reach a mass market.
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Painting ID:: 95283
Mohini and Rugmangada to kill his own son Raja Ravi Varma
Date 1899(1899)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95284
Urvashi and pururavas
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Painting ID:: 95285
Vishwamitra and Menaka
Raja Ravi Varma
Date 1890(1890)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95286
Ganga vatram or Descent of Ganga
Date Around 1910
Medium Oleograph
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Painting ID:: 95287
Jatayu Vadham
Date 1895(1895)
Medium oil on canvas
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Raja Ravi Varma
1848-1906, Indian painter. He was the most important and one of the earliest Indian artists of the 19th century to work in oil paints. The subjects of his paintings were often mythological, but they were produced in a European historicist style. He absorbed the influence of such French 19th-century academic painters as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Boulanger and of Indian contemporary popular theatre, specializing in the type of mythological paintings that found favour with Indian rajas and British administrators. His successful exploitation (from 1894) of the lithographic reproduction of his paintings ensured, for the first time in India, that the work of an individual artist could reach a mass market.
. Related Artists to Raja Ravi Varma: | Abraham Janssens | John Frederichk Lewis RA | Matteo Di Giovanni | Lucas Cranach the Elder | Miller, Richard Emil |
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