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Something wrong?He painted Hindu gods with European light and shadow, then printed them cheaply enough that households across India could hang them on their walls. That move - oil technique meets mythological subject, then mass distribution - reshaped what devotional art looked like in ordinary homes.
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"Arjuna Subhadra," by Ravi Varma
1900 view of Masjid al-Haram
1900 views of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem
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An earlier version by Raja Ravi Varma himself
Another view "The descent of the Ganges" into Shiva's tangled hair, as depicted by Raja Ravi Varma's studio, c.1910-20
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, Who knows if these very pictures, now painted for maharajas, will not find their way to the museums one day.
...the importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art
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Born 29 April 1848 into the royal family of Parappanad in present-day Kerala, Raja Ravi Varma was closely related to Travancore's rulers. He trained in European academic painting and applied its realism to Indian subjects: deities from the Puranas, scenes from the epics. The fusion was his signature - Western perspective and anatomy, Indian iconography and story. Then he took the rarer step: he made lithographs of the paintings and sold them affordably, bringing fine art into common reach. The prints circulated widely, shaping popular visual taste and religious imagery for decades. He died 2 October 1906; two of his granddaughters were later adopted into the Travancore royal line.
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