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Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) probably the first Indian artist to master perspective and the use of the oil medium; the first to use human models to illustrate Hindu gods and goddesses; the first Indian artist to become famous, before him painters and craftsmen were largely unidentified; and the first to make his work available not just to the rich elite but also to common people by way of his oleographs.Raja Ravi Varma is famous for his paintings based on Indian mythology & epics. He was was born in Kilimanoor Palace in a royal family of those times. His mother was a poet, his father was a Sanskrit scholar and his uncle was an amateur artist, who taught young Ravi his initial art lessons.Varma was the first Indian to use Western techniques of perspective and composition and to adapt them to Indian subjects, styles, and themes. He won the Governor’s Gold Medal in 1873 for the painting Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair. In 1894 he set up a lithographic press in order to mass-produce copies of his paintings as oleographs, enabling ordinary people to afford them. That innovation resulted in the tremendous popularity of his images, which became an integral part of popular Indian culture thereafter.

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Princess Damayanti and Sudeshana

Princess Damayanthi abandoned by Nala, sitting alone in forest

Damayanti, a character in Hindu mythology, was the princess of Vidarbha Kingdom, who married king Nala, of Nishadha Kingdom, and their story is told in the Mahabharata

Damayanti

Bharat Milap Bharatha meeting Rama who advice him to rule Ayodhya (Kosala Kingdom) on his behalf

Bharata Painting of child

Bharata in the forest

Bhishma abdicating his right to the throne, in order to get the fisher girl married to his father Shantanu

Kamsa maya (1890)

Kamsa trying to kill the child, shown

Maya by Goddess Durga

Draupadi with her five husbands - the Pandavas

The central figure is Yudhishthira; the two on the

bottom are Bhima and Arjuna. Nakula and

Sahadeva, the twins, are standing.

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Draupathi in the guise of Syrendri taken to forest by Virata's wife Simhika, who plans to kill her

Draupadi, in disguise carrying honey and milk to the court of Keechaka

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court of Keechaka

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(Draupadi as Sairandhri fends off Kichaka's advances)

Draupadi as humiliated in Virata's durbar (Palace) by Kichaka

Ganga Shantanu

Shantanu stops Ganga from drowning their eighth child, who later was known as Bhishma.

Shantanu woos the fisherwoman, Satyavati(from Mahabharata)

Raja Ravi Varma was the first and the only person in India to have had a personal, special post office, provided to him in view  of the high volume of fan mails arriving as cartloads

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Krishna as envoy to the Kaurava court before Kurukshetra war. Satyaki takes out his sword when the Kauravas, raise their sword against Krishna

Radha and Sakhi

Radha and Sakhi (fragment)

Radha Waiting for

Krishna

Radha Madhavam

Lord Madhav with his love -

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Jatayu attempting to

save Sita Devi from

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Ravana cuts

Jatayu's wings

Rama releasing Ahalya from curse

Ramapanchayan,Rama and Sita, with Hanuman,

and Rama's three brothers

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Sakunthala, the heroine of Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama Sakunthalam.Sakunthala writing letter to Dushyantan after she fall in love with him

Sakunthala Pathralekhan

Sakunthala writing a love letter to

Dushyantan on a lotus leaf with her

nail

Sakunthala Pathralekhan

Sakunthala writing a love letter to

Dushyantan on a lotus leaf with her nail

Sakunthala Pathralekhan

Sakunthala writing a love letter to Dushyantan on a lotus

leaf with her nail

Menaka and Sakunthala (1891)

Apsaras Menaka taking her daughter

Sakunthala while she was pregnant and discarded by King

Dushyantha

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Sakunthala 1898Looks of Love

Sakunthala looking back at Dushyanthan acting as injured with

a thorn

Sakunthala 1898Looks of Love (detail)

Yasodha and

Krishna

Yasodha and

Krishna

Yashoda milking cow and little Krishna asking for a glass of milk

Child Krishna seated on a tree branch playing his flute

Lord Krishna & Balarama freeing Vasudevar & Devaki after killing

Kamsan

Sound: Jay Sri Krishna from Namaste,album Magical Healing Mantras

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