Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was born in Kilimanoor Palace as the son of Umamba Thampuratti and Neelakandan Bhattathiripad. At the age of seven years he started drawing on the palace walls using charcoal. His uncle Raja Raja Varma noticed the talent of the child and gave preliminary lessons on painting. At the age of 14, Ayilyam Thirunal Maharaja took him to Travancore Palace and he was taught water painting by the palace painter Rama Swamy Naidu. After 3 years Theodor Jenson, a British painter taught him oil painting.
Most of his paintings are based on Hindu epic stories and characters. In 1873 he won the First Prize at the Madras Painting Exhibition. He became a world famous Indian painter after winning in 1873 Vienna Exhibition.
Many of his paintings are classic and his unique Indian style has later influenced artists and designers worldwide. Here we have collected pictures of some of the classic paintings of Raja Ravi Varma.
All pictures sourced from Cyberkerala
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January 12th, 2009 at 3:28 am
An overwhelming response of more than 8000 participants from 115 cities of India coming from the huge range of age, profession and cultural groups has motivated us to take the entire movement to the next level.When such an over whelming number of people join a platform, then there is an obvious need to make the platform larger.
the organisers of the Rang Rasiya Freedom of Expression Movement feel immense pleasure to introduce and welcome you all to a global Artist Networking Portal. Please join our artist’s community at http://freedomofexpressionmovement.ning.com/ . We aim to make this community a platform which enables artists to interact with each other, exchange ideas around art making, viewing and showcasing. All this is just a part of our endeavour to make the Freedom of Expression Movement, the largest ever platform for artistic talent.
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February 28th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
nice collection…..
February 28th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
fabulous collection…..
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
I want to buy photographs of Laxmi & Saraswati draw by Raja ravivarma . how @ where i will get it . Please send me postal adress and cost ( Photo size A4).
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I’m sorry Sanjay, but I don’t have the information that you are looking for.