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Yoga Narashimha, Vishnu in his Man-Lion Avatar

c. 1250

South India, late Chola Period

(900-13th Century)

Bronze

Overall: 57 x 31 x 23 cm (22 7/16 x 12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Base: 18.8 x 32 x 22.5 cm (7 3/8 x 12 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski 1973.187

Location

243 Indian and Southeast Asian

Description

The two posts on either side are for holding a halo that once encircled the figure.

Provenance
Sander L. Feldman, Washington, DC
?–1973
Dr. Norman Zaworski [1920–2013], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1973–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. Mentioned: no. 188, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 188, p. 60 www.jstor.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 300 archive.org
Connell, Timothy C., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World Art Transparencies, to accompany World History The Human Odyssey and Modern World History by Jackson J. Spielvogel. Cincinnati: West Educational Pub, 1998. Reproduced: Acetate 18
Dehejia, Vidya, Richard H. Davis, Irā Nākacāmi, and Karen Pechilis. The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. New York: American Federation of Arts, 2002. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. 45, pp. 1–2, 170 & 186–187
Branfoot, Crispin. "Processions and Presence: Bronze Sculptures from the Temples of Southern India." Arts of Asia Vol. 36, No. 6 (November/December 2006): 61-71. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 68, fig. 8
Dehejia, Vidya. Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. 22, pp. 120–123
Locke, Adrian K. "Divine Beauty: Sacred Medieval Bronzes from Southern India." Minerva Vol. 18, No. 1 ( January-February 2007): 22-24. Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 6
Diamond, Debra, and Molly Emma Aitken. Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2013. Mentioned: p. 141, Cat. 8A
Dorfman, John. "Good Posture." Art & Antiques 37, no. 6 (June 2014): 52-56. Reproduced: p. 56
Eiland, Murray. "The Art of Transformation". Minerva. 25, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2014): 32-35. Reproduced: p. 35, fig. 8
Dehejia, Vidya. The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855-1280. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 254-255, fig. 9.7
Exhibition history

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986).

The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (November 10, 2002-March 9, 2003); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (April 4-June 15, 2003); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 6-September 14, 2003).

Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 11, 2006-February 25, 2007).

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).

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