Raja Ravi Varma was the great Indian Artist of 19th Century. He mastered the style of academic realism. Identify the correct options of his art works.

A. Ramayana

B. Mahabharata

C. Mother Teresa

D. Shakuntala

E. Birth of Jesus

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A, B and D

The correct answer is Option 4- A, B and D

What, However, flourished in the art schools set up by the British was the academic style of oil painting that used a European medium to depict Indian subject matter. The most successful examples of this type of painting were found away from these art schools. They are best seen in the works produced by self-taught artist, Raja Ravi Varma of the Travancore Court in Kerala. By imitating copies of European paintings popular in Indian palaces, he mastered the style of academic realism and used it to depict scenes from popular epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata. They became so popular that many of his paintings were copied as oleographs and were sold in market. They even entered people’s homes as calendar images. With the rise of nationalism in India by the end of the nineteenth century, this academic style embraced by Raja Ravi Varma came to be looked down upon as foreign and too western to show Indian myths and history.

Varma also painted Release of Ahalya, Rama Breaking the Sacred Bow of Siva before his Marriage to Sita, Rama, Sita and Laksmana Crossing the Saryu, Ravana abducting Sita and Opposed by Jatayu, Sita in Ashoka Grove, The Coronation of Rama, etc.

"Shakuntala" is one of the most popular works by Raja Ravi Varma. It's a modern retelling of the Shakuntala looking for Dushyanta in the epic Mahabharatha.