Hanuman (1100s): Art, History and Details

Hanuman (1100s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

When posed in this powerful and exuberant manner, the image of Hanuman stood at the top of a standard. As the son of the wind god and the most powerful of the primeval forest-dwellers, who are depicted with the head and tail of a monkey and the body of a man, Hanuman as an emblem spelled success in battle.

Object facts

• Title: Hanuman
• Date: 1100s
• Culture: Cambodia, Angkor, Bayon style, 12th Century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 18 x 19 cm (7 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Cambodian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1991.169

Collection credit

Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38–79.

View the collection record

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