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"accession_number": "1973.106.d",
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"tombstone": "Left Thigh for Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan, c. 600. Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da. Sandstone. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1973.106.d",
"current_location": "243 Indian and Southeast Asian",
"title": "Left Thigh for Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan",
"creation_date": "c. 600",
"creation_date_earliest": 590,
"creation_date_latest": 610,
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"culture": [
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"department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
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"No Extent Specified": {}
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"current": [
{
"id": 357308,
"title": "Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia\u2019s Sacred Mountain",
"description": "Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia\u2019s Sacred Mountain. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2021-January 30, 2022); National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (April 30-September 18, 2022) https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/revealing-krishna-journey-to-the-sacred-mountain/.",
"opening_date": "2021-11-14T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 676976,
"title": "Reinstallation of \u201cKrishna Lifting Mount Govardhan\u201d",
"description": "Reinstallation of \u201cKrishna Lifting Mount Govardhan\u201d. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 12, 2024-November 2, 2025).",
"opening_date": "2024-10-12T04:00:00"
}
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"provenance": [
{
"description": "L\u00e9once Rosenberg [1879\u20131947], Paris, France",
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"footnotes": [],
"date": "c. 1910\u20131920",
"sortorder": 1
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"description": "Adolphe Stoclet [1871\u20131949], Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Belgium",
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"footnotes": [],
"date": "1920\u20131949",
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{
"description": "Mich\u00e8le Leon-Stoclet [1932\u20131967], Brussels, Belgium, and Barcelona, Spain",
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"date": "1949\u20131967",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "1973\u2013",
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"did_you_know": "Gold earrings were once fastened to the sculpture using holes in the figure's earlobes.",
"early_education_description": null,
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"description": "This masterwork of early Cambodian sculpture shows the Hindu god Krishna effortlessly holding aloft a mountain to protect his fellow villagers and herds from torrential storms sent by a jealous old god. It is one of eight monumental monolithic figures recovered from a two-peaked mountain in the floodplains of the Mekong River delta, on the outskirts of the ancient urban center of Angkor Borei.",
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"citation": "Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V., Amsterdam. Collection Le\u0301once Rosenberg, Paris, deuxie\u0300me et dernie\u0300re partie, Vente Publique. Le Mardi 1 Juin 1920. Lot 214.",
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"citation": "Groslier, George. Arts et arche\u0301ologie Khmers: Revue des recherches sur les arts, les monuments et l'ethnographie du Cambodge depuis les origines jusqu'a\u0300 nos jours. 2, 2. Paris: Ste\u0301 des e\u0301d. ge\u0301ographiques, maritimes et coloniales, 1924.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: [no page number], descriptive caption facing Pl. XXX",
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"citation": "Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. History of Indian and Indonesian Art. New York: E Weyhe, 1927.",
"page_number": "p. 183",
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},
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"citation": "Goloubew, Victor. Documents pour servir a\u0300 l'e\u0301tude d'Ajanta; les peintures de la premie\u0300re grotte. Paris et Bruxelles: G. Vanoest, 1927.",
"page_number": "p. 415",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Parmentier, Henri. L'art khme\u0300r primitif. Paris: G. Vanoest, 1927.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 121 and fig. 84",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fischer, Otto. Die Kunst Indiens, Chinas und Japans. Berlin: Propyla\u0308en-Verlag, 1928.",
"page_number": "p. 226",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cuisinier, Jeanne. \u201cCollections of Oriental Art in Belgium,\u201d Indian Art and Letters New Series, Vol II, no. 2. London: The India Society, Second issue for 1928.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 81 and Plate E",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "De Coral R\u00e9musat, Gilberte. \u201cL'activit\u00e9 Arch\u00e9ologique Dans L'Inde Ext\u00e9rieure.\u201d Revue Des Arts Asiatiques, vol. 10, no. 4, 1936, pp. 211\u2013226.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 225-226",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/43475009"
},
{
"citation": "C\u0153de\u0300s, George. Inscriptions du Cambodge. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1937.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: Vol. II, p. 156",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Visser, H. F. E. Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium. Amsterdam: \"De Spieghel\" Pub. Co, 1948.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 198, no. 338, pp. 76-77, 476-477",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Briggs, Lawrence Palmer. The Ancient Khmer Empire. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1951.",
"page_number": "p. 36",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rowland, Benjamin. The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu [and] Jain. [Baltimore]: Penguin Books, 1954.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: plate 155, p. 227",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Dupont, Pierre. La statuaire pre\u0301angkorienne. Ascona, Suisse: Artibus Asiae, 1955.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 40-41; Reproduced: Plate V-A",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1973.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 61, no. 2, 1974, pp. 30\u201379.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 30; Mentioned: no. 182, p. 31 and 79",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw. \u201cA Masterpiece of Early Cambodian Sculpture.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 61, no. 4, 1974, pp. 119\u2013127.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 117-127",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152522"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 316",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n336"
},
{
"citation": "Schwartzberg, Joseph E., and Shiva G. Bajpai. A Historical Atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. II.D.6 30. Mentioned: p. 185",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pal, Pratapaditya. The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. [New York]: Asia Society in association with J. Weatherhill, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 19, fig. 3",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw. \"The Case of the Buried Fragments.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 66, No. 7 (Oct., 1979), pp. 288-295.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 288-295; Reproduced: fig. 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10A-D, and back cover",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159641"
},
{
"citation": "Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "p. 179",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 265, fig. 328",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Jessup, Helen Ibbitson, and Thierry Zephir. Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 160",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 160-161",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J. \"The Cleveland Museum's Krsna Govardhana and the Early Phnom Da Style of Cambodian Sculpture,\" Ars Orientalis supplement [Cha\u0304cha\u0304ji\u0304; Professor Walter M. Spink Felicitation Volume]. 2000 supplement, pp. 127-135.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 127, fig. 1; p. 128, fig. 3.",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 102, p. 92; Mentioned: p. 119",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fontein, Jan. Chinese works of art from the Stoclet collection: 25 March-5 April 2003 : exhibition in New York at PaceWildenstein. London: Eskenazi, 2003.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 6",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Lavy, Paul Andrew. Vis\u0323n\u0323u and Harihara in the Art and Politics of Early Historic Southeast Asia. PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 228",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Jessup, Helen Ibbitson. Art & Architecture of Cambodia. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28, fig. 21; Mentioned: pp. 28-29",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw, \"Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art,\" Orientations, An Issue in Honour of Sherman E. Lee (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 82",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J. \"A Quest for the Best: The Enduring Legacy of Sherman E. Lee,\" Orientations vol. 40, no. 5.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 37, fig. 3",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Dumoulin, Michel. Les Stoclet: microcosme d'ambitions et de passions. Bruxelles: Le Cri, 2011.",
"page_number": "p. 316",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 64-65",
"url": null
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"citation": "Guy, John, and Pierre Baptiste. Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 146-149, cat. no. 72; Reproduced: p. 148",
"url": null
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"citation": "Narayanan, Vasudha. \u201cThe Hero at Play: Depictions of the Govardhana-Laia story in Khmer art.\u201d Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Vol. 23, no. 2 (Spring 2015), pp. 131-147.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 134, 142",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Porte, Bertrand. \u201cSculptures Transform\u00e9es, Du Phnom Da Au N\u00fai Ba Th\u00ea.\u201d Arts Asiatiques, vol. 71, 2016, pp. 141\u2013158.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 13",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/26358217"
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 35",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Revire, Nicholas. \u201cDvaravat\u0131 and Zhenla in the seventh to eighth centuries: A transregional ritual complex\" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 47(3), pp 393\u2013417.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 4.4",
"url": null
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"citation": "\"Cleveland Museum of Art Embarks on Radical Reconstruction of Cambodian Krishna Statue.\" Western Association for Art Conservation. Newsletter. 40:1 (January 2018): 28.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 28",
"url": null
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"citation": "Coe, Michael D., and Damian Evans. Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. [New York, NY]: Thames & Hudson, 2018.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 96, fig. 26",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bassoul, Aziz. Splendour of Khmer Iconography: Ancient Cambodian Art of the 5th to the 13th Centuries in Major World Museums and Private Collections. Beirut: Cedar of Lebanon Editions, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 120-121, no. 53",
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"citation": "Coe, Michael D. and Damian Evans. Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2018.",
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"citation": "Mace, Sonya Rhie. \"Restorations and Reconstructions: Cambodian Art to and from Cleveland.\" Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 57-67.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 57, fig. 1",
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"citation": "Mace, Sonya Rhie. \u201cThe Cleveland Krishna.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61 no. 4 (Fall 2021).
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"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 5; Mentioned: P. 4-8",
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"citation": "Edelstein, Beth. \u201cConserving Krishna.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 9-10.",
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"citation": "Alexander, Jane. \u201cA Virtual Polish for an Ancient Masterwork.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 11-12.",
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"citation": "Mace, Sonya Rhie, Bertrand Porte, Choulean ANG, Pierre Baptiste, CHEA Socheat, Thierry Ze\u0301phir, Christian Fischer, Beth Edelstein, Collen Snyder, and Amaris Sturm. Revealing Krishna: Essays on the History, Context and Conservationof Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan from Phnom Da. Lewes, UK: D Giles Limited; Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Cover, p. 14, p. 25, pl.6, p. 32, fig. 1, p. 35, fig. 2, p. 50, fig. 16, p. 51, fig. 17, p. 53, fig. 18, p. 60, fig. 20, p. 61, fig. 21, p. 72, fig. 31, pp. 82-83, figs. 39-40, p. 104, fig. 63",
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"citation": "\"Krishna Govardhana: A Journey to Cambodia.\" The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 26 November 2021.",
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