The Thief Who Stole My Heart : : The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855–1280 / / Vidya Dehejia.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 242 color + 3 b/w illus. 4 tables. 8 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Chola Bronzes and the Thief Who Stole My Heart
- 1 Gods on Parade: Sacred Forms of Copper
- 2 Battling for Empire and Shiva as Victor of Three Forts 855-955
- 3 Writ in Stone: Temple Walls as Inscribed Archives
- 4 Portrait of a Queen and Her Patronage of Dancing Shiva: 941-1002
- 5 The Tiruvenkadu Master and Ten Thousand Pearls Adorn a Bronze: Eleventh Century
- 6 Chola Obsession with Sri Lanka and Hindu Bronzes from the Island: Eleventh Century
- 7 The Silk Route of the Ocean and Temple Art in the Days of Rajaraja II: Twelfth Century
- 8 Evolving Manifestations of the Goddess, the God Vishnu, and the Buddha
- 9 Worship in Uncertain Times and the Secret Burial of Bronzes: Thirteenth Century
- 10 Reviewing the Chola Achievement a Millennium Later
- Appendix A: Main Rulers of the Chola Dynasty: A Tentative Genealogy
- Appendix B: Assemblages of Sacred Bronzes: Inscriptional Evidence
- Appendix C: Tenth- Century Chola Yoginis in Context
- Appendix D: Trace Metal Analysis on Five Chola Bronzes, by Matthew L. Clarke, Nicole C. Little, and Donna K. Strahan
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
- Photography and Copyright Credits