id: 150998 accession number: 1982.47 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.47 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:19.009000 Goddess Mahabhairavi, 1000s. India, Himachal Pradesh, 11th century. Bronze; overall: 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.47 title: Goddess Mahabhairavi title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1100 current location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Himachal Pradesh, 11th century technique: bronze department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1982 opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). title: Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure opening date: 2003-04-05T00:00:00 Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (April 5-August 17, 2003); Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (October 19, 2003-January 11, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Pan Asia Collection date: footnotes: citations: (Robert H. Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1982 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1982– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The wrathful aspect of Shiva is called Bhairava, and his consort is called Bhairavi. She is here shown seated on the shoulders of Bhairava. A crown of skulls adorns each of the heads of this remarkable pair of deities. Her topmost head is the most ferocious, with her mouth wide open, baring her teeth. Her form is youthful and beautiful, but her multiple arms show her dominating power. For this reason this image of Bhairavi is called maha or "great." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55. page number: url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799 Reedy, Chandra L. Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style, and Choices. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 178, fig. H107 url: Pal, Pratapaditya, Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautamavajra Vajrācārya. Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press and Mapin Pub, 2003. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 82, p. 131 url: Donaldson, Thomas E. Síva-Pārvatī and Allied Images: Their Iconography and Body Language. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2007. page number: Reproduced: p. 321, fig. 302 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.47/1982.47_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.47/1982.47_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.47/1982.47_full.tif