The iconography of Goddess Lakshmi, from the Vedas to the modern masters of Indian painting

On Diwali, as countless households worship the Goddess of prosperity, a short history of how her classic depiction — seated or standing on a lotus, flanked by elephants — evolved: from the coins of the Gupta kings to the oleographs of Raja Ravi Varma.

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