Description: Revealing Krishna : Essays on the History, Context, and Conservation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan from Phnom Da, Paperback by Mace, Sonya Rhie; Porte, Bertrand, ISBN 1911282786, ISBN-13 9781911282785, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Centered on the early Cambodian masterpiece Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan in the Cleveland Museum of Art, seven essays present new research and discoveries regarding its history, material, and context. Introducing the Cleveland Krishna as one of eight monumental sculptures of Hindu deities from the sacred mountain of Phnom Da, the museum’s curator presents evidence for its establishment in a cave sanctuary and recountsits fascinating journey from there to Cleveland in multiple pieces—including a decades-long detour of being buried in a garden in Belgium. Conservators and scientists elucidate the long-fraught process of identifying the sculptural fragments that belong to the Cleveland Krishna and explain the new reconstructions unveiled in the 2021 exhibition RevealingKrishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain
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An international team of specialists in the history of art, archaeology, and anthropology place the Cleveland Krishnaamid the material traces of a sophisticated population based in the Mekong River delta at the ancient metropolis known as Angkor Borei. They reveal the long-lasting influence andprestige of the site, well into the Angkorian period, more than six hundred years after the creation of the Cleveland Krishna and the gods of Phnom is the fifth in the Cleveland Masterworks Series.
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Book Title: Revealing Krishna : Essays on the History, Context, and Conservation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan from Phnom Da
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Giles The Limited, D.
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Sculpture & Installation, Asian / Indian & South Asian
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 25.4 Oz
Author: Sonya Rhie Mace, Bertrand Porte
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 8.5 in
Book Series: Cleveland Masterwork Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
