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Raja Ravi Varma - Mahabharata - Shakuntala

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She looks back at her lover, pretending to remove a thorn from her foot.

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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