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Raja Ravi Varma - Self portrait, 1887
Raja Ravi Varma is famous for his paintings based on Indian mythology & epics. He was was born in Kilimanoor Palace and he learnt water colour painting from the palace artist Rama Swamy Naidu. He learnt oil painting from the British artist Theodor Jenson. Towards the end of the 19th century, when there was a lack of vitality in Indian painting, he was one of the few artists who re-introduced Indian subjects in his works.Varma was the first Indian to use Western techniques of perspective and composition and to adapt them to Indian subjects, styles, and themes. He won the Governor’s Gold Medal in 1873 for the painting Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair. He became a much-sought-after artist among both the Indian nobility and the Europeans in India, who commissioned him to paint their portraits. Varma adapted Western realism to pioneer a new movement in Indian art. In 1894 he set up a lithographic press in order to mass-produce copies of his paintings as oleographs, enabling ordinary people to afford them. That innovation resulted in the tremendous popularity of his images, which became an integral part of popular Indian culture thereafter.
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Dashavatara, the ten
avatars of Lord Vishnu
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A representation of the Gayatri MantraThe goddess sits on a lotus flower and appears with five heads and five pairs of hands, representing the incarnations of the goddess as Parvati, Saraswati etc. She is Saraswatī. She is the consort of Brahma
Usha's Dream (oleographic print)
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Ah
ima
hi V
ad
h
(Ha
nu
ma
n k
ills
Ah
i an
d M
ah
i)
Jagannath (Lord of the
Universe) Lithograph by
Raja Ravi Varma,1900s
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Ardhanarishva
Ardhanarishvara is a composite androgynous form of the Hindu god Shiva and his consort Parvati. Ardhanarishvara is depicted as half male and half female, split down the middle.
The origin of Ardhanarishvara lies in hermaphrodite figures in ancient Hindu and Greek cultures. Maruti
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Ganesha with AshtaSiddhi
Shiva, Parvati, Ganesha
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Ganapati (Ganesha with consorts Riddhi and Siddhi)According to Scriptures Ganesha Purana, Lord Ganesha is married to Buddhi and Siddhi, daughters of Lord Brahma. Buddhi means intelligence. Siddhi is the ultimate achievement, i.e. liberation (moksha). Riddhi means progress, prosperity and material enjoyment (bhoga). Buddhi, Siddhi and Riddhi are all Lord Ganesha’s own powers. When they are personified, they are considered as his consorts.
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Ganapati (Ganesha with consorts Siddhi and Buddhi)
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Ganesh on his vahana, a mouse or rat
Lord Ganesha is the son of lord Shiva and the God is given the first honour of worship in Hinduism. Before undertaking anything auspicious Hindus offer prayers to Lord Ganesha
Lord Ganesha is given prime importance among the Panch Devtas. The Panch Devtas are Lord Ganesha, Vishnu, Shiva, Shakti and Surya. In Hindu mythology, Panch Devtas together makes the Brahman (universe), which is supreme and absolute.
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Goddess Ambika (Durga)
the wife of Vichitravirya seated on a throne with
attendants and musicians by her side, she
has four hands. Co
lou
r lit
ho
gra
ph
of
the
go
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ess
Am
bik
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Brit
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Mu
seu
m,
Lo
nd
on
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Dattatreya, the incarnation of the
thrimoorthis, Brahma,
Mahavishnu and Maheswar (Shiva)
Sacred River Goddess Ganga
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Parashurama (the sixth avatar of
Vishnu) with his axe M
ats
ya
(th
e a
vata
r o
f th
e H
ind
u g
od
Vis
hn
u in
th
e f
orm
of
a f
ish
)
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Ma
ha
tma
Bu
dd
ha
Jud
ith
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Po
rtra
it o
f V
asa
ntik
a,
the
sp
ring
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a 1
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myt
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log
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lya
is t
he
wife
of
the
sa
ge
Ga
uta
ma
Ma
ha
rish
i
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Na
tara
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Th
e C
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an
cer
(Lo
rd S
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an
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g in
th
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of
Na
tara
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Va
ma
n
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Durga Goddess Chamundi kills evil Mahishasura
King Harichandra in his vow to speak only the truth, losing his son
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Mohini on a swing
Mohini (Heavenly Apsara) is the only female avatar of the
Hindu god Vishnu Mo
hin
i (O
leo
gra
ph
)
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Mohini asking Rugmangada to kill his own son, 1899
Mohini and Bhasmasur (he destroyed himself by putting his hands on his head)
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Arjuna and Subhadra (half
sister of Krishna)
Kali trampling Shiva
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Meerabai (Women who changed the
world)
the Rajasthani poet-saint
and a devotee of
Lord Krishna is singing
songs (Bhajans) in praise of her lover, Lord
Krishna
Vasanthasena (Oleographic
print)
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Garuda Vahan Vishnu
Lord Vishnu
flying on his divine vehicle Garuda Bird with two of his attendants on either
side.
Shani Deva, the elder brother of Yama, the
Hindu god of death.
Shani is
embodied in the planet Saturn and
is the Lord of Saturday
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Vishnu Laxmi and
Serpent Anant
Dhruv NarayanDhruva, son of King Uttanapada and Suniti, meditating in the forest. Narayan (Vishnu) appears and gives him boon to be in the middle of the sky so that all the stars would revolve around him.
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Krishna Drishta (1888)The viewing of the infant Krishna
Birth of Krishna
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Savitri Narad Samvad Satyavan Savitri Savitri
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De
sce
nt
of
Ga
ng
a
Markandeya
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Godess Saraswati
playing a Veena and her vehicle
a Peacock seated, facing
her
Th
e G
od
de
ss L
aks
hm
i sta
nd
ing
on
a L
otu
s
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Th
e G
od
de
ss L
aks
hm
i (d
eta
il)
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Shesh Narayan, is considered to be one of the many manifestations of Vishnu and is also considered as the servant of Vishnu.
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Se
sha
na
raya
na
N
ara
yan
a (
Vis
hn
u)
an
d w
ifes,
with
Sh
esh
a (
Ole
og
rap
hic
prin
t)
Seduction of Vishwamitra (Menaka, the
nymph tempting the
yogi)
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Urvashi and Pururavas
Tilottama is an
Apsara (celestial nymph)
described in Hindu
mythology
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Murugan Hindu deity Karktikeya (the Hindu god of war) with his consorts on his Vahana peacock
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Skanda, Murugan or Kartikeya, is the Hindu god of war. He is the commander-in-chief of the army of the devas (gods) and the son of Shiva and Parvati.
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Sound: Gaurangi Devi Dasi aka Pia - Govindam
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