id: 147449 accession number: 1973.187 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.187 updated: 2023-12-06 23:49:54.325000 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski 1973.187 title: Yoga Narashimha, Vishnu in his Man-Lion Avatar title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1250 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1250 current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski copyright: --- culture: South India, late Chola Period (900-13th Century) technique: bronze department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Sacred India opening date: 1985-11-05T05:00:00 Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986). title: The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India opening date: 2002-11-10T00:00:00 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). title: Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India opening date: 2006-11-11T00:00:00 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). title: Yoga: The Art of Transformation opening date: 2013-10-19T04:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Sander L. Feldman, Washington, DC date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Norman Zaworski [1920–2013], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1973 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1973– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. page number: Mentioned: no. 188, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 188, p. 60 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513 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. 300 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n320 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. page number: Reproduced: Acetate 18 url: 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. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. 45, pp. 1–2, 170 & 186–187 url: 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. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 68, fig. 8 url: Dehejia, Vidya. Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. 22, pp. 120–123 url: Locke, Adrian K. "Divine Beauty: Sacred Medieval Bronzes from Southern India." Minerva Vol. 18, No. 1 ( January-February 2007): 22-24. page number: Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 6 url: Diamond, Debra, and Molly Emma Aitken. Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 141, Cat. 8A url: Dorfman, John. "Good Posture." Art & Antiques 37, no. 6 (June 2014): 52-56. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: Eiland, Murray. "The Art of Transformation". Minerva. 25, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2014): 32-35. page number: Reproduced: p. 35, fig. 8 url: 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. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 254-255, fig. 9.7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.187/1973.187_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.187/1973.187_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.187/1973.187_full.tif