{"id":96559,"date":"2026-04-04T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=96559"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:42:58","slug":"raja-ravi-varma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/raja-ravi-varma\/","title":{"rendered":"Raja Ravi Varma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Raja Ravi Varma Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Raja Ravi Varma\u2019s Yashoda and Krishna painting was sold for \u20b9167.2 crore at Saffronart.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Raja Ravi Varma<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was born on 29 April 1848, in the village of Kilimanoor in Kerala to a family of chieftains known as <\/span><b>the Koil Thampurans.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ravi Varma was an <\/span><b>Indian painter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> celebrated for blending Hindu mythological themes <\/span><b>with European realism and naturalism.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was among the <\/span><b>first Indian artists to use oil paints and master lithographic reproduction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Themes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Varma painted scenes from Hindu mythology and portraits of Indian and British figures in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Notable Works:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> His notable works include <\/span><b>Shakuntala Writing a Love Letter to Dushyanta<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Shri Rama Vanquishing the Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is also known for <\/span><b>having mastered the<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reproduction of his work on <\/span><b>the lithographic press\u2013<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through which his paintings spread far and wide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He set up his own <\/span><b>printing press in Maharashtra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 first in <\/span><b>Ghatkopar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and eventually in <\/span><b>Lonavala in 1894.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Awards<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1904, he<\/span><b> received<\/b> <b>the Kaiser-i-Hind medal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and was popularly known as Raja Ravi Varma.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His 1873 painting, <\/span><b>Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, won Varma prestigious awards including Governor\u2019s Gold Medal when it was presented in the <\/span><b>Madras Presidency,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Certificate of Merit at an exhibition in Vienna.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/entertainment\/art\/raja-ravi-varma-painting-sells-creates-record\/article70814744.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raja Ravi Varma was born on 29 April 1848, in the village of Kilimanoor in Kerala to a family of chieftains known as the Koil Thampurans. 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