Damayanti and the Swan — Raja Ravi Varma

Description

Raja Ravi Varma is among India’s most celebrated painters, famed for merging Indian mythological themes with European academic painting techniques. His ability to use oil on canvas to render skin tones, drapery, and light with luminous detail won him acclaim in both Indian and colonial art circles. This painting is part of his mythological series, showing Varma’s mastery of composition and narrative — works that symbolise the artistic high point of cultural hybridisation in late 19th-century Indian art.