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Diagrams of the Universe: The Two-and-a-Half Continents, the Universe in the Shape of a Person, and the Seven Levels of Hell
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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Diagrams of the Universe: The Two-and-a-Half Continents, the Universe in the Shape of a Person, and the Seven Levels of Hell

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Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Clevelan...

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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020). Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 28-May 7, 2023) https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/comparative-hell-arts-asian-underworlds; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (June 16-September 18, 2023).

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According to Jain cosmology, the universe is envisioned in the shape of a man. Above the waist are seven levels of heavens; below the waist are seven levels of hell. His midsection is the earthly realm, here shown as a round diagram with mountains and rivers, expanded at the left. The hell scenes are elaborated at the right.

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