Spanning hundreds of acres in Gujarat, Lakshmi Vilas Palace still stands as a lived-in royal home, blending vast scale, rare art, and surprising modern comforts from India’s princely era.
India-Australia cultural exchange: With a 'Maitri' grant from the Australian government and help from conservationists at the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bengaluru, an art gallery in Brisbane is showing Raja Ravi Varma's prints - embellished with fabric, zardozi and bundgi dots - till October 5.
'Raja Ravi Varma' memes flooded Twitter after a post falsely claiming to show a painting by the renowned Indian artist went viral on the microblogging platform.
The first book (The Shaping of the Artist) of a six-book series on Raja Ravi Varma’s life and legacy is set to be released on April 9 at Lukshmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara. Here's a sneak peek at some of the images featured in the series.
The retrospective that features over 700 images of his paintings prints, sketches and rare photographs, has been unveiled in partnership with nine institutions, including The Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation, National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi),and The Ganesh Shivaswamy Foundation and Museum of Art & Photography.