Thangka with Amitayus (1600s): Art, History and Details
Thangka with Amitayus at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1600s, painting on fabric. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Thangka with Amitayus (1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This thangka includes a series of donor portraits of Hindu laypeople from Rajasthan, who sponsored this painting for a Buddhist temple. It is from a fascinating moment in Nepalese history when Nepal was governed by the Rajput Gurkha clan.
Object facts
- Title: Thangka with Amitayus
- Date: 1600s
- Culture: Nepal
- Type: Painting
- Technique: painting on fabric
- Dimensions: Image: 68.6 x 67.6 cm (27 x 26 5/8 in.); Framed: 99.1 x 87.6 cm (39 x 34 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Nepalese Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1991.1081
Collection credit
Gift of Walter H. Drew
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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