{"id":84982,"date":"2020-04-30T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15142"},"modified":"2020-04-30T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:33:11","slug":"raja-ravi-varma-the-painter-who-helped-indians-bring-their-gods-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/raja-ravi-varma-the-painter-who-helped-indians-bring-their-gods-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Raja Ravi Varma, the painter who helped Indians bring their gods home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>29th April is the birth anniversary of the famed Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma(1848-1906).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Raja Ravi Varma was born in Travancore (Kerala).He was patronised by Ayilyam Thirunal, the then ruler of Travancore.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contributions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He is remembered for giving Indians their western, classical representations of Hindu gods and goddesses.<\/li><li>He gave birth to affordable sacred images that can be found in puja rooms, public spaces and homes.<\/li><li>He was one of the first Indian artists to use oil paints and to master the art of lithographic reproduction of his work.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Famous works:<\/strong> Damayanti Talking to a Swan, Shakuntala Looking for Dushyanta, Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair, Shantanu and Matsyagandha.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 1873, the painting of Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair won the Governor\u2019s Gold Medal when it was presented in the Madras Presidency.<\/li><li>In 1904, the British colonial government awarded Varma with the Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal.<\/li><li>In 2013, a crater on the planet Mercury was named in his honour.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: 29th April is the birth anniversary of the famed Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma(1848-1906). Facts: Raja Ravi Varma was born in Travancore (Kerala).He was patronised by Ayilyam Thirunal, the then ruler of Travancore. Contributions: He is remembered for giving Indians their western, classical representations of Hindu gods and goddesses. He gave birth to affordable&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/raja-ravi-varma-the-painter-who-helped-indians-bring-their-gods-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raja Ravi Varma, the painter who helped Indians bring their gods home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2098,2099],"class_list":["post-84982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-painter","tag-raja-ravi-verma","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700787992,"cached_date":1704889342},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}