Androgynous Form of Shiva and Parvati (Ardhanarishvara)

Arts of Asia

11th century

Nepal
Kathmandu Valley

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Androgynous Form of Shiva and Parvati (Ardhanarishvara)
Place: Nepal (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1001–1100
Medium: Gray schist
Dimensions: 61 × 48.5 × 10 cm (24 × 19 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2021.208
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Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 24 (ill.), 275–6, cat. 18.
Thomas Eugene, Donaldson, Siva-Pårvatï and Allied Images - Their Iconography and Body Language, 2 vols. (New Delhi: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd, 2007), 236–237, fig. 174.
Gerd J.R. Mevissen, “Corpus of Ardhanarisvara Images from Nepal, Eastern India and Southeast Asia,” Berliner Indologische Studien or Berlin Indological Studies, 21 (2013): 273–298.
Gerd J.R. Mevissen, “Images of Ardhanarisvara from Bengal and Nepal: A Chronological Survey,” in South Asian Archaeology and Art: Papers from the 20th conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art held in Vienna from 4th to 9th July 2010, Vol 1. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2014), 176.
Ulrich Von Schroeder, Nepalese Stone Sculptures, vol. 1. (Weesen, Switzerland: Visual Dharma Publications, 2019), 699–701, pl. 217: 217D, pl. 699.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Aug. 2–Oct. 26, 1997, cat. 18.

Dale Crawford, London; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Mar. 8, 1985 [invoice from Dale Crawford, Mar. 8, 1985; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 17, 1997; publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 14, 2021.

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