id:			145695
accession number:	1971.117
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.117
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:28.055000

Shiva as Lord of Music, c. 1000. South India, Tamil Nadu, Chola period (900-13th century). Bronze; overall: 76.5 x 45 cm (30 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.); base: 26 x 25 cm (10 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1971.117

title:				Shiva as Lord of Music
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creation date:			c. 1000
creation date earliest:		990
creation date latest:		1010
current location:		244 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	South India, Tamil Nadu, Chola period (900-13th century)
technique:	bronze
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 76.5 x 45 cm (30 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.); Base: 26 x 25 cm (10 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1971
	opening date:   1971-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

	title:		The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
	opening date:   2002-11-10T00:00:00
	<i>The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 6-September 14, 2003).

	title:		Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
	opening date:   2006-11-11T00:00:00
	<i>Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India</i>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 11, 2006-February 25, 2007).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1971
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1971–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1971.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 59, no. 1, 1972, pp. 3–46.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 26, no. 177; Mentioned:  p. 47, no. 177
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152412

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 299
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n319

	Dehejia, Vidya. <em>Art of the Imperial Cholas</em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 66-69; Reproduced: p. 69, pl. 52
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	Branfoot, Crispin. "Processions and Presence: Bronze Sculptures from the Temples of Southern India." <em>Arts of Asia </em>vol. 36 no. 6 (2006).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 66, fig. 5
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	Dehejia, Vidya. <em>Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India</em>. London, UK: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 7, pp. 68–71
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	Locke, Adrian K. "Divine Beauty: Sacred Medieval Bronzes from Southern India." <em>Minerva</em> vol. 18 no. 1 (January-February 2007).
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 4
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