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Raja Ravi Varma

1848 - 1906

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Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam: [rajaː ravi varma(ː)ɐ]) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. Especially, he was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure. His lithographs increased the involvement of common people with fine arts and defined artistic tastes among the common people. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raja Ravi Varma is the 123rd most popular painter (up from 712th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from India (up from 230th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 123 out of 2,023. Before him are Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Francis Bacon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Juan Gris, and Giorgio de Chirico. After him are Annibale Carracci, Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, Gustave Moreau, and Albrecht Altdorfer.

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Among people born in 1848, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 5. Before him are Paul Gauguin, Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, and Gottlob Frege. After him are Otto of Bavaria, Johann Palisa, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Among people deceased in 1906, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 8. Before him are Pierre Curie, Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, and Archduke Otto of Austria. After him are Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, Georgy Gapon, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, and Anton Arensky.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 49 out of 1,861. Before him are Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Adi Shankara (788), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Aryabhata (476), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), and Jaggi Vasudev (1957). After him are Aishwarya Rai (1973), Hyder Ali (1720), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Sariputta (-568), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), and Kabir (1440).

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Among PAINTERS In India

Among painters born in India, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 1. After him are Abanindranath Tagore (1871), M. F. Husain (1915), Basawan (1560), and Jamini Roy (1887).

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