A roomful of sculptures on loan from museums in Cambodia and France then helps establish the religious context for the Krishna sculptures, which date from a period when Hinduism and Buddhism ...
CLEVELAND — Across hundreds of years and thousands of miles, the Cleveland Museum of Art's latest exhibit takes you to Cambodia, the sacred mountain home to sculptures of eight Hindu gods including ...
“Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan after 2020 restoration (detail)” (c. 600, Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da), sandstone, 203.1 x 68 x 55.5 cm (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance ...
Left: Northeast peak of Phnom Da in 2019. Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province. Photo: Konstanty Kulik, courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art Right: Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan (detail), c. 600.
“Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain” centers on a single ancient artifact: a damaged but still commanding statue of the Hindu god, who’s holding up a bit of the ceiling — still ...
An art exhibition titled ‘Celebrating Janmashtami' featuring paintings of Srinathji, one of the avatars of Lord Krishna, has been put up at KK Square in Jaipur. The exhibition celebrates Pichhwai art ...
Raja Ravi Varma’s painting from 1890, titled ‘The Birth of Krishna’.(Courtesy Nita Ambani Cultural Centre ) It’s difficult to take one’s eyes off this dramatic painting set in a dark prison room. It ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cambodia returned a 432-pound sculptural fragment to the Cleveland Museum of Art after new evidence including 3-D scans showed that the broken piece belongs to the museum's ...
When Indra, the Hindu god of rain and thunder, unleashed torrential rain on the people of Vrindavan, Krishna lifted the Govardhan mountain like an umbrella with his left hand and saved the people and ...