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The Art Institute's distinguished Asian collection comprises works spanning nearly five millennia from China, Korea, Japan, India, southwest Asia, and the Near and Middle East. It includes 35,000 objects of great archaeological and artistic significance.

Iran Blue and White Dish, 17th century

IranFars, Shiraz

From a manuscript of the Shahnama

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of

Firdausi, 1580/1590

Iran Star Tile, 13th century

Iran Architectural Fragment, 13th-14th century

Iran or Central AsiaTwelve-Point Star,

late 15th century

Iranprobably KashanTile with Double-Arched Prayer Niche (Mihrab), 13th century

Iran Oil Lamp (Cheragh), early 13th century

Iran probably KashanBowl with Birds,

late 13th-early 14th century

Left of the staircase

Bodhisattva and Pair of Buddhist

Monks

Bodhisattva China Tang dynasty (618-907)8th century

Bodhisattva China

Tang dynasty (618-907)8th century

Pair of Buddhist MonksChina

Sui dynasty (581-618)

Right of the staircase

Bodhisattva and Maitreya Buddha

Maitreya Buddha (Mi-le)

Tang dynasty (618-907)

8th century

Buddha China


early to mid 8th century

Buddha China


early to mid 8th century

Buddha ChinaTang dynasty (618-904)early to mid 8th century

JapanFlowering Cherry and Autumn Maple with Poem SlipsSesson Shukei (c. 1490-after 1577)

Shiva and Uma seated with their

son SkandaIndia, Tamil Nadu Vijaynagar Period,

1400

Twenty-Armed Dancing God

Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles

Madhya Pardesh, India

11th century

Sculptures from Bihar, India

Shiva as Lord of Music, with a Vina, seated on his Bull, Nandi

India10th century

Vishnu (Varaha -Boar incarnation of

God) 12th century

India Rajasthan

New Galleries of Asian Art

Buddha seated in Meditation

India, Tamil Nadu,

NagapattinamChola period, c 12th century

Karttikeya, God of War, Seated on a Peacock,

Ganga Period, c. 12th

century.

IndiaAndhra

Pradesh, MadanapalleKarttikeya,

God of War, Seated on a

Peacock, Ganga Period, c. 12th century

IndiaUttar Pradesh,

MathuraKarttikeya,

God of War, Holding a

Spear, 2nd century

Buddha seated in Meditation India, Tamil Nadu, Nagapattinam c 12th century

God Hanuman, the Monkey God

India, Madhya Pradesh

9th century

Marriage of Shiva and Paravati

India, Uttar Pardesh10-11 century

Dancing God Shiva (Natesha) India Rajasthan 10/11th century Marriage of Shiva and Paravati



Detail

Cow Suckling A Calf

India, Madhya Pradesh or Uttar Pradesh

9th century

Eight Armed Dancing God

Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles

Utter Pardesh, India

10th century

God Ganesha,

Remover of ObstaclesIndonesia,

Central Java9th-10th century

Lion India

Uttar Pradesh2nd century

Shiva, as Lord of the Dance-

NatarajaIndia,

Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur.

Chola period, 1000c

The surrounding flames represent

the manifest Universe

Nataraja, The Lord (or King) of Dance, is a depiction of the god Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for the god Brahma to start the process of creation.

The sculpture is usually made in bronze, with Shiva dancing in an aureole of flames, lifting his left leg (or in rare cases, the right leg) and balancing over a demon or dwarf (Apasmara) who symbolizes ignorance.

Nataraja, The Lord (or King) of Dance, is a well known sculptural symbol in India and popularly used as a symbol of Indian culture

The snake swirling around

his waist is kundalini, the

Shakti or divine force thought to

reside within everything.

This also parallels the cords of life

worn by the Brahmins to

represent the second rebirth.

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuwww.slideshare.net/michaelasanda

Sound: Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain - DadraSound: Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain - Dadra

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