The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Head of a Rishi

Head of a Rishi

c. 125–150 CE
stone
Overall: 27.7 x 24 cm (10 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1971.41
Location: not on view

Description

The beard and thick dreadlocks identify this image as that of a rishi, a wise sage and Brahmin priest of Hinduism. Few examples of rishis survive in the round from this period.
  • Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 95, fig. 21 25152680
    Diamond, Debra, and Molly Emma Aitken. Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2013. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 3, p. 37
  • Yoga: The Art of Transformation. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (October 19, 2013-January 26, 2014); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 21-May 25, 2014); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 22-September 7, 2014).
    Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
  • {{cite web|title=Head of a Rishi|url=false|author=|year=c. 125–150 CE|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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