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	RAVI VARMA
		Ravi varma was not trained in any academic school with the result that his understanding of European art was rather native.
		Ravi Varma was a visionary and a modern man. He understood the need to adapt a new methodology of marketing techniques for propagating his art.
		The style of Ravi Varma become so popular that in the early part of the century if a novelist wanted to describe the beauty of his heroine he had only to write one sentence “She looked as if she had stepped out of a Ravi Varma canvas”.
	www.kalakeralam.com /finearts/ravivarma.htm (960 words)

	Profile of the Month - Ravi Varma
		Ravi Varma’s creativity was further tampered by listening to the music of veterans, watching Kathakali, going through the manuscripts preserved in ancient families and listening to the artistic interpretations of the epics.
		Ravi Varma’s fame as a portrait artist soared with several important portrait commissions from the Indian aristocracy and British officials between 1870 and 1878, and the sensitivity and immense competence this artist still remains unsurpassed.
		Ravi Varma was convinced that mass reproduction of his paintings would initiate millions of Indians to real Art, and in 1894 he set up an oleography press called the Ravi Varma Pictures Depot.
	www.indianartcircle.com /arteducation/ravi.shtml (1055 words)

	trava2
		in 1125 Sri Vira Keral Varma I, Raja of Venad.
		1342 - 1363 Sri Vira Kerala Varma Tiruvadi, Raja of Venad.
		1382 - 1383 Sri Kerala Varma Kulasekhara Perumal, Raja of Vanad.
	4dw.net /royalark/India/trava2.htm (527 words)

	Raja Ravi Varma
		KALA -> The PalmLeaf -> Raja ravi varma
		Ravi Varma was influenced by Tanjore style of painting but his main influence was most definitely European.
		The popularity of Ravi Varma in the late 19th century was helped by the accessibility of his paintings.
	website.lineone.net /~kala_uk/rajaravi.htm (677 words)

	Groceries
		Raja Ravi Varma was born in 1848 into the royal house of Kilimanoor, 25 miles from Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala state.
		The Kilimanoor princes were renowned for their cultural accomplishments, and Ravi Varma's artistic talents blossomed early: by the time he was 14, he had secured the patronage of the maharaja of Travancore.
		Though Ravi Varma had to teach himself the techniques of oil painting, by the early 1870s he was mixing oils perfectly, and his portraits show a remarkable ability to depict a variety of skin tones and fabrics.
	www.hotdishes.com /rajaravivarmabio.htm (756 words)

	Government Museum Chennai
		Ravi Varma on his twentieth year he had the chance to observe the working technique of Theodore Jensen, a Danish born British artist, who visited Travancore in 1869.
		Ravi Varma's work was acclaimed at the Pune exhibition in 1880 and art exhibition held in Vienna and Chicago in 1892.
		Ravi Varma's finest paintings of "Sakuntala", "The Miser", "Lady with the Mirror", "Yasodha" and "Krishna" are on display in the new gallery lighted with Fibre optic lighting.
	www.chennaimuseum.org /draft/gallery/03/03/modp1.htm (461 words)

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		RAVI VARMA'S comprehensive retrospective at the National Museum in 1991 had an unpredictable multiplier effect.
		He draws a comparison between Varma's way of working simultaneously on three or four works, of travelling with a retinue of servants and of spending their leisure hours browsing among books and visiting the theatre to the established European tradition of the gentleman artist.
		Raja Raja's narrative has a phlegmatic quality; the brother's financial troubles with the Ravi Varma press are described in the same fairly measured tones as their everyday enterprise of buying painting materials, or the constant arrangement of meetings with wealthy clients.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005070300300500.htm&date=2005/07/03/&prd=lr& (712 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Ravi Varma
		Ravi Varma (1848—1906) was born in Kilimanoor in the princely state of Travancore, now in Kerala.
		Ravi Varma received several awards from the British administrators and his royal patrons.
		Ravi Varma’s style and rendering of mythological characters became a model for later artists, theatre directors and film-makers.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?1411 (220 words)

	Raja Ravi Verma
		Raja Ravi Varma was born on April 29, 1848 at Kilimanoor, a small town in Kerala.
		The glittering career of Raja Ravi Varma is a striking case study of academic art in India.
		Ravi Varma is considered as modern among traditionalists and a rationalist among moderns.
	www.boloji.com /vithika/vithika05.htm (370 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Ravi Varma paintings fade away in Kerala's humidity and heat
		The sorry state of many Raja Ravi Varma paintings at the Sree Chitra art gallery in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has brought to fore questions regarding the larger issues of art conservation and restoration.
		Known Ravi Varma expert and art critic M G Sasibhooshan fears that the paintings are slowly moving into a state of permanent disrepair.
		Sasibhooshan alleges that many of the paintings, including that of Ravi Varma, are virtually heaped one above the other inside the store room of the gallery due to lack of space, in absolute disregard to international norms.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/aug/14varma.htm (646 words)

	Raja Ravi Varma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Raja Ravi Verma (1848-1906) (also spelled Raja Ravi Varma).
		Born in Kilimanoor, a small fiefdom in the princely state of Travancore (modern Kerala), Ravi Varma was educated at home, as was the tradition in aristocratic houses, and received his first lesson in picture-making from his uncle, the artist Raja Raja Varma.
		At the same time, Varma was also a prolific portraitist and received commissions from various princely families as well as Europeans resident in India.
	www.mahakali.com /varma.shtml (194 words)

	Museum and Zoo, Thiruvananthapuram
		The Maharaja of Travancore presented a 'Virasrinkhala' to Ravi Varma.
		Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was a great artist who brought Indian painting to the attention of the larger world.
		Ravi Varma added a new chapter of his own to the history of painting.
	www.keralamuseumandzoo.org /Artgallery.html (716 words)

	Women in the Raja Ravi Varma Mold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pushing Varma's musicians to the margins of the canvas, Malani instead has youthful full-bodied women and a powerful mother figure occupying centre stage.
		Varma's women are generally laden with ornaments and follow the colonial stereotypes of oriental femininity.
		Despite the annoyance of his detractors, women in the Raja Ravi Varma mould are hard to drive away.
	www.indianest.com /women/07011a.htm (789 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In fact, Raja Ravi Varma in a way can be credited with having given a visual identity and image to most of the pantheon of Hindu deities, who were until then visualized for the most part from their monochromatic sculptural representations in temples.
		It was in 1988 that Mangharam chanced to view Ravi Varma’s paintings for the first time in the galleries of the Trivandrum Palace on one of his business visits to the state.
		No portfolio of Ravi Varma’s paintings can be a comprehensive one, for the single reason that scores of his works remain locked up in attics in ancient palaces across the country, their worth not recognized by their owners.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct26/sh5.asp (995 words)

	India - Women - Portrait Of A Painter As A Pop Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clearly it is 'in' to possess a Ravi Varma.
		Ask Almona Bhatia, whose website, www.indiaartmart.com, thrives on selling prints and oleographs by Varma, on what she thinks of the representation of women by the artist and she is quick to gush, “They are just wonderful: his Mohini, his Damyanti, his Shakuntala and so many others.
		Costumes, particularly, in the Marathi and Gujarati stage were inspired by Varma’s women: the famed female impersonators of the early 20th century, Bal Gandharva and Jaishankar Sundari, seemed to have walked out of the frames of his paintings.
	www3.estart.com /india/women/popstar.html (959 words)

	Art - Ravi Varma’s raj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is Varma’s depiction of mythological characters and incidents that have become the rather popular across masses.
		Though popular in his time, Varma, a member of a royal family in Travancore was disregarded as a non-artist soon after his death.
		Varma has become a controversial painter raising various debates in the art world regarding his status in Indian art.
	web.mid-day.com /entertainment/art/2003/february/44104.htm (595 words)

	F L A I R
		With the help of the Department of Culture and the National Museum, an abundantly illustrated catalogue on Ravi Varma was published containing contributions from art historians and critics and a section on the artist’s diary.
		A Varma painting, which, before the exhibition would have been valued for Rs 50,000 was now going for Rs five lakh.
		Ravi Varma, who was formerly outdated, is back in fashion.
	www.expressindia.com /flair/20011111/2g.html (570 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: Paintings of Ravi Varma
		I knew a lawyer from Karwar who was a great devotee of Ravi Varma and had collected many of his works.
		Great injustice has been done to the artist Ravi Varma in our country because he used modern hues and oils in his work and because of the western influence in his paintings.
		To me, Ravi Varma is not only among India's greatest artists, but also a great patriot.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/art/raviverma (365 words)

	Rukmini Varma's Web Page
		Raja Ravi Varma, who belonged to this royal lineage was responsible, to a very large extent, for laying the foundation of Indian contemporary art.
		However considering the social scenerio prevalent at the time of her childhood, she did not have the opportunity to be trained in a formal art school.
		Later, Rama Varma, who was well versed in the techniques of Raja Ravi Varma, taught Rukmini Varma the pleasing flesh tone that Ravi Varma used.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/rukminivarma (397 words)

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		WHEN historian Robert Del Bonta bought a stack of Raja Ravi Varma oleographs for 25 paise a piece in 1980, Saryu Doshi, honorary director of Mumbai’s National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), chuckled at the European’s eccentricity.
		‘‘Ravi Varma was one of the most eclipsed and underrated artists for 90 years.
		Currently working on a book on Varma herself, Chawla was instrumental in bringing together ‘New Perspectives’, the biggest exhibition on Varma’s works in 1993, at the National Museum in New Delhi.
	www.indianexpress.com /print.php?content_id=32586 (548 words)

	Government Museum Chennai
		It is an oil painting painted in 1901 by Raja Ravi Varma, the harbinger of modern art in India.
		It is an oil painting on canvas painted by Raja Ravi Varma in the year 1894.
		It is an oil painting painted in 1894 by C. Raja Raja Varma, the younger brother of Ravi Varma.
	www.chennaimuseum.org /draft/gallery/03/03/modp2.htm (188 words)

	Images
		Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was born in Kilimanoor, Kerala.
		Raja Ravi Varma studied oil painting in the Royal palace at Trivandrum, continued at Mysore and Baroda, and went on to be one of the most prominent artists to emerge from India.
		One painting by Varma had a knife put through it, and it would be a shame to see his work, which has survived many years, get ruined due to inadequate measures of preservation.
	website.lineone.net /~kala_uk/images.htm (851 words)

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		Kerala's rich tradition of painting is rooted in its rituals like Kalamezhuthu (pictorial drawings on the floor) and the magnificent frescoes and mural art found in the old temples and churches here.
		Ravi Varma's paintings capture the subtle emotions and sublimity of physique of human characters and nature alike in a realistic manner.
		The Ravi Varma school of fine arts was established by his son Rama Varma.
	www.india-travel.com /kerala/ke-sh10.htm (252 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Features -> Raja Ravi Varma's painting fetches record price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New Delhi: Raja Ravi Varma's painting 'Yashoda and Krishna' fetched Rs 56 lakh, perhaps a record price for any painting sold in India, at an auction held recently in the capital.
		The oil-on-canvas painting by the legendary 19th century artist, estimated at Rs 30- 40 lakh by the auctioneer, Bowrings, fetched Rs 56 lakh, which was also a world record auction price for the artist.
		Varma's paintings, mostly depicting Hindu deities, elicited a good response.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/11/24/24painting.html (245 words)

	Kerala history12th century and onwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marthanda Varma, the legendary king was born in 1706.He was born at a time of declining royal power and assertive temple brahmins.(pillamar).
		Marthanda Varma was a strong ruler who recovered lost land and enlarged his kingdom.
		In subsequent confrontations Marthanda Varma's forces soundly defeated the Dutch and the forces of the raja of Kayamkulam.
	kerala-history.nrksite.com /history4.htm (1031 words)

	Culture Course -Vol - X - Ravi Varma ( Page 5) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ravi Varma married the younger sister Of the Travancore Queen in, 1865.
		At the suggestion of the then Travancore Ruler, Ravi Varma too exhibited his paintings at that exhibition.
		The Governor of Madras commissioned Ravi Varma to paint some pictures for him.
	www.hindubooks.org /culture_course/book10/ravivarma/page5.htm (110 words)

	Raja Ravi Varma in Bombay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The diary chronicles their journey from 1894 on, while they attended to their portraiture business; it is also the only reliable source on the Ravi Varma Fine Arts Lithographic Press founded in Bombay.
		The Varma brothers were enthusiastic patrons of the Bombay theatres, at times visiting several shows on a single evening.
		Extracted with permission from Raja Ravi Varma: Portrait of An Artist, The Diary of C Raja Raja Varma edited by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, published by Oxford University Press 2005, Rs 2250.
	web.mid-day.com /smd/play/2005/june/111894.htm (2326 words)

	Tour Tips of Kerala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Raja Ravi Varma: The prince among painters and a painter among princes
		Prince Ravi Varma(1848-1906)of Kilimanoor Palace of Travancore perfected his skills even at a very early age.
		The exquisite works of Ravi Varma are on display at the Sree Chithra Art Gallery.
	www.keralatourism.org /index.jsp?resource=shop&file=10.htm (261 words)

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