Triad (early 900s): Art, History and Details

Triad (early 900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This group has been linked to a temple dedicated to Shiva in Central Java. Its name, Loro Jonggrang, meaning "Slender Maiden," refers to the image of the warrior goddess Durga on the temple, which local legend links to the form of a princess cursed to be turned into stone. The highly porous stone is the distinctive material used to construct temples on the volcanic islands of Indonesia.

Object facts

• Title: Triad
• Date: early 900s
• Culture: Indonesia, Central Java, Prambanam, Temple of Loro Jonggrang, early 10th Century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: volcanic stone
• Dimensions: Overall: 66 cm (26 in.)
• Collection: Javanese Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1948.459

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
• Ward, William E. “A Hindu Sculpture from Java.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 39, no. 10, 1952, pp. 238–239.

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