Painted Banner (Thangka) of Skull-Cup Bearing (Kapâladhara) Hevajra

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Arts of Asia

c. 1604

Tibet
Central Tibet

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Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Painted Banner (Thangka) of Skull-Cup Bearing (Kapâladhara) Hevajra
Place: Tibet (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.: 1600–1625
Medium: Pigment on cloth
Dimensions: 78 × 61 cm (30 3/4 × 24 in.)
Credit Line: Russell Tyson and Frederick and Nathalie Gookin endowments
Reference Number: 1997.547
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Kathryn H. Selig Brown, “Himalayan Gems: Nepalese and Tibetan Art,” Orientations, Vol. 42, No. 3 (April, 2011), p. 47: Fig. 5.
Jackie Menzies, Goddess Divine Energy (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006), p. 261: cat. 173.
Pratapaditya Pal, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure (The Art Insitute of Chicago, 2003), p. 261: cat. 173, and Appendix p. 294: 173.
Franco Ricca, A Tibetan Experience: Paintings from 1300 through 1800 (Philharmonic Center for the Arts, 1995), pp. 28-29.

“Goddess: Divine Energy,” organized by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, 13 October 2006 - 28 January 2007.
Chicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, “Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, ” 5 April 2003 - 17 August 2003 and Washington, DC, The Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: 18 October 2003 - 11 January 2004
Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, August 2–October 26, 1997.

Sold to the Art Institute by Mr. Ferrucio Abbiati, Alessandria, Italy, February 27, 1996.

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