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Oil Paintings by Raja Ravi Varma, India 1848 to 1906

Raja Ravi Varma Born in Kilimanoor, India.Ravi Varma belonged to a family of scholars, poets and artists.He was the first painter to cast the Indian Gods and mythological characters in natural earthy surroundings using a European realism,adopted not only by the Indian calendar-art-showing images of Gods and Goddesses, and also literature and later by the Indian film industry- affecting their dress and form even today. His dazzling oil paintings of India's ancient glory delighted turn-of-the-century India and his mass reproductions through oleography reached out to the Indian populace in an unprecedented scale.

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