{"product_id":"raja-ravi-varma-rani-bharani-thirunal-lakshmi-bayi-of-travancore-fine-art-print","title":"Raja Ravi Varma — Rani Bharani Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi of Travancore | Fine Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman stands beside a marble-topped table, one hand on a red book, the other hanging at her side. Her hair is parted and gathered back with pink and white flowers; she wears pearls, a nose ring, a round earring and stacked bangles. A crimson and gold brocade saree falls over a blue velvet blouse, with a pale green ribbon and badge at her chest. Behind her are a crimson curtain, grey marble columns and palm trees under a cloudy sky; roses and daisies fill a blue bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaharani Lakshmi Bayi (1848-1901) was the Senior Rani of Travancore from 1857 until her death in 1901, having been adopted into the Travancore family. Google Arts \u0026amp; Culture records her as the sister of Ravi Varma's wife and the wife of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, who translated several works of Kalidasa into Malayalam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: oil on canvas, 1883, Sree Chitra Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) was an Indian painter, born at Kilimanoor in the princely state of Travancore, now Kerala, into an aristocratic family closely tied to its royal house. Patronised by Maharaja Ayilyam Thirunal, he learned watercolour from Rama Swami Naidu and oil painting from the British portraitist Theodore Jensen. He applied European realism to Hindu gods and to scenes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana, such as Shakuntala, and won three gold medals at Chicago in 1893. From 1894 his lithographic press spread his images across India, and they shaped early Indian cinema. 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