Nataraja, Shiva as the Lord of Dance
1000s
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Nataraja, Shiva as the Lord of Dance, 1000s. South India, Tamil Nadu, Chola period (900-1200s). Bronze; overall: 113 x 102 x 30 cm (44 1/2 x 40 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.); base: 35 x 24 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.331 The trampled figure holds a serpent in his left hand and with his right points up to Shiva.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 113 x 102 x 30 cm (44 1/2 x 40 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.); Base: 35 x 24 cm (13 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1930.331
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Exhibition of the Month: Jewelry of India, Art: The International Language, Master Bronzes of India, Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture, Sacred India, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music, The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 244 Indian and Southeast Asian
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