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Five Poses of Krishna Making Love, from a Bikaner Bhagavata Purana
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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Five Poses of Krishna Making Love, from a Bikaner Bhagavata Purana

c. 1600
Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Dimensions
Miniature: 17.5 x 25.4 cm (6 7/8 x 10 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
Indian Art
Origin
Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bikaner
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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Exhibitions

Public
Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation

Source exhibition text

Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

When the Hindu god Vishnu incarnated as his human avatar Krishna, he spent his youth in a cowherd village. When he reached adolescence, the milkmaids were all drawn to him. A passage in the text explains that Krishna miraculously multiplied himself so he could be with each one individually, so they could experience the bliss of divine union.

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