Kaikeyi vilap - Egypt - A painting of a woman laying on the ground next to a man
Summary
"King Dasaratha finds Queen Kaikeyi collapsed on a tile floor. This represents a scene from the Ramayana where Kaikeyi demands that Dasaratha vanquish Rama from Ayodhya, and is a print from a Raja Ravi Varma oil painting."
Ravi Varma (1848–1906), Indian painter best known for uniting Hindu mythological subject matter with European realist historicist painting style. He was one of the first Indian artists to use oil paints and to master the art of lithographic reproduction of his work. In addition to incidents in Hindu mythology, Varma painted many portraits of both Indians and British in India.
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Date
1600 - 1700
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Wikimedia Commons
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public domain