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The Magic Circle is an oil painting made in 1886 by John William Waterhouse in the Pre-Raphaelite style. The painting shows a witch or sorceress drawing a glowing magic circle on the ground with a wand. She creates this circle to make a special space for a magical ritual.

Waterhouse painted two versions of this artwork and also made a study (practice sketch) of it. It was common at that time for artists to create smaller copies of popular paintings, often because collectors wanted to buy them.

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When Ma Parvati and Mahadev Posed for the Artist. 💗💗
Sitting on a pedestal made of earth a divine couple sits in a poised manner, they look quite comfortable and at ease,
Parvati leans towards shiva with security, and Mahadev is all in his masculine demeanor
Even the name of the artist is interesting
MV Dhurandar (Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandar) 💕🍀
Har har Mahadev

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Have you ever seen rare paintings of Raja Ravi Varma like this himalyan woman.
Looking by her jwellery she from Tibet or nepal
What do you think guys, which region she might be from?

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Sri Hari Vishnu A Lithograph by MV Dhurandar
MV dhurandhar was inspired by the God and Goddesses art of Raja Ravi Varma and so he also made several portraits of Devi and Devtas in lithograph style and as well as in paintings.
You can see chaturbhuja Narayan holding Sudarshan Chakra, Lotus, Mace, and Conch shell. He wears yellow clothes which is iconography of rajas tatva, he wears a garland of flowers showing softness.
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Ardhnarishwar
Kangra Style
1820
Ardhnarishwar is a form of Shiva Shakti united as one, Depicting Non-Duality, it is a coherence of Masculine and Feminine energy together, it does not describe male or female, but the essence we carry of Shiva and Shakti with in, through Yogic Practice and Mindfulness our inner shakti(kundalini) Rises upward from our Muladhara to Meet its shiva in the Sahasrar the crown Where both gets united, body and the soul.

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Baba Kalabhairav,
I painted him or he just painted himself
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Yesterday creation took place in my heart, and baba Kalabhairav came as a result

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The Paubha Paintings of Nepal,
Are actually thangka paintings made in cloth, and used as yantra sometimes in asoteric rituals

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The tale of Ahalya is primarily found in the Bala-kandam of the Ramayan by Valmiki. Ahalya was a princess from the Puru Dynasty and was the wife of a great saint Gautama.

Ahalya's beauty was besotted by Indira who was intent on seeking her companionship.

Indra disguised himself as Gautama and Ahalya allowed Indra into her home. Gautama returned from his prayer to discover the misdeed. In addition to cursing Indra, he cursed Ahalya to turn to stone. The curse was to be absolved only when Sri Rama entered the precincts of the ashram. The curse of Ahalya is finally absolved when Sri Rama visits the ashram of Gautama before he reaches Mithila accompanied by the great sage Vishwamitra and his brother Lakshmana.

This is the first in a series of three prints by the Ravi Varma Press which are derived from paintings by Raja Ravi Varma.

In this print entitled 'Ahalya' she is depicted as a young woman in the garden leaning on a tree and carrying a basket of flowers.

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Rambha Seducing Sage Shuka
By
Raja Ravi Varma

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