id: 147084 accession number: 1972.96 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.96 updated: 2025-10-14 11:14:31.013000 Virupa, early 1400s. China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle reign (1403-1424). Gilt bronze with silver, stones, and pigment; overall: 43.6 cm (17 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom, 1972.96 title: Virupa title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1400s creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1420 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle reign (1403-1424) technique: Gilt bronze with silver, stones, and pigment department: Chinese Art collection: China - Ming Dynasty type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 43.6 cm (17 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). title: Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet opening date: 1992-09-18T04:00:00 Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 18-December 13, 1992). title: Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet opening date: 1996-05-01T00:00:00 Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (May 1-August 31, 1996); Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain (October 1, 1996-January 12, 1997). title: Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet opening date: 1998-01-16T00:00:00 Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei (January 16-May 1, 1998). title: The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art opening date: 2003-10-05T00:00:00 The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 5, 2003-January 11, 2004); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (February 8-May 9, 2004). title: Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art opening date: 2013-05-05T00:00:00 Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 15, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Purchased from an Indian dealer in Kathmandu, Nepal date: ?–1965 footnotes: citations: (J. J. Klejman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1965–1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1972– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Karmay, Heather. Early Sino-Tibetan Art. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1975. page number: Reproduced: p. 91, fig. 63 url: Béguin, Gilles. Dieux et démons de l’Himâlaya: Art du Bouddhisme Lamaïque : [Exposition], Grand-Palais, 25 Mars-27 Juin 1977. Paris: Secrétariat d’État à la culture, Éditions des musées nationaux, 1977. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 63, pp. 104 and 106 url: Schroeder, Ulrich von. Indo-Tibetan Bronzes. Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 146B, p. 520 url: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang [海外遺珎. 佛像 = Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 196 url: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang [海外遺珎. 佛像= Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 196 url: "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (July 1993): 215–295. page number: Mentioned: p. 247 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Lee, Sherman E., and Naomi Noble Richard. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 453, fig. 591 url: Rhie, Marylin M., Robert A. F. Thurman, and John Bigelow Taylor. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. New York: Tibet House New York in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1996. page number: Abb. 197 (67b), p. 444 url: Fisher, Robert E. Art of Tibet. London; New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 156, pp. 186–187 url: Davidson, Ronald M. Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 185, fig. 10 url: Stoddard, Heather. Early Sino-Tibetan Art. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 87, fig. 63 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 03, May/June 2013. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced:p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-03/page/4 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 221 url: Huntington, John C., Dina Bangdel, and Robert A. F. Thurman. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 141–142, cat. no. 28 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.96/1972.96_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.96/1972.96_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.96/1972.96_full.tif