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Ravi Varma painted more than two thousand canvases in his lifetime. The selection below spans his range: the epics from the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the goddesses who left his press for every Indian wall, the family portraits, and the breakthrough Shakuntala that made his name at Vienna in 1873. Click any canvas to look closer.
A scrolling, close reading of Shakuntala, the breakthrough canvas. The thorn, the glance, the lover beyond the frame.
Onward, to Shakuntala →