The magic of Raja Ravi Varma’s realism continues to enthrall ... along with that of the Goddess Saraswati playing the veena with a peacock in the foreground. The former resonates strongly ...

Raja Ravi Varma, often regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Indian Art’, laid the foundation to make art accessible to the common man. With the use of European art techniques, Varma became the ...

The artist is Raja Ravi Varma, the man who radically ... on his daughter Mahaprabha who is the face of Saraswati, Lakshmi and Damayanti. But Varma also used people around him to depict divine ...

In 2016, some of Raja Ravi Varma’s oleographs went ... Our family had Ravi Varma oleographs of Lakshmi and Saraswati, and when my aunt took the Saraswati, my mother Vimala Shivaswamy, asked ...

The Raja Ravi Varma: Royal Lithography and Legacy ... “Once, when I was 13, my aunt took away the Ravi Varma Saraswati from our puja room in our Race Course Road house.” The house, he adds ...

Before his first major painting, Raja Ravi Varma’s elders told him to seek the blessings of Mookambika Devi. This goddess is Lakshmi in the morning, Durga in the afternoon, and Saraswati in the ...

Modernist painter Raja Ravi Varma’s legacy is entwined with the ... standing on a lotus with two elephants behind her? Of Saraswati, you will recall the goddess in a white sari playing the ...

Raja Ravi Varma-Hamsa Damayanti-1899 Sree Chitra Art ... But a prominent one would be Saraswati. I feel she speaks to me.” ...

Be it the mythical Shakuntala, Sita, Saraswati, the celestial nymphs ... “Geetanjali Maini, managing trustee and CEO of The Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation, had gifted some memorabilia ...

The artwork is loaned to the museum by Bengaluru-based Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation. The nine chromolithographs including Lakshmi, Saraswati, Shankar, Shesha Narayana, Vishnu Garuda Vahan ...

Raja Ravi Varma is known for being an extraordinary ... There will be a mix of common prints — Lakshmi, Saraswati, Krishna, and the Mysore princely family; and rare ones — Urvashi, Padmini ...