The Art Institute of Chicago is home to a remarkable yet often overlooked collection of Khmer art—sculptures and architectural fragments that once adorned the monumental temples of the Khmer Empire (9th–15th centuries CE), an area that encompassed large parts of mainland Southeast Asia.
These sacred and royal objects, with their connections to gods, temples, and kings, reveal the rich religious, political, and artistic settings from which they emerged, while ongoing provenance research continues to shed new light on their histories and journeys to this museum.
Join researcher Nicolas Revire to explore the hidden stories behind select works of Khmer art.
About the Speaker
Nicolas Revire is the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Research Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. Born in France, he holds a doctoral degree and specializes in Hindu-Buddhist art of early Southeast Asia, particularly pre-modern Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Nicolas brings expertise from two decades of teaching and research in Southeast Asia. He is currently the managing editor of the Journal of the Siam Society.
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