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Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
c. 600
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This masterwork of early Cambodian sculpture shows the Hindu god Krishna effortlessly holding aloft a mountain to protect his fellow villagers and herds from torrential storms sent by a jealous old god. It is one of eight monumental monolithic figures recovered from a two-peaked mountain in the floodplains of the Mekong River delta, on the outskirts of the ancient urban center of Angkor Borei.
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- Title: Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
- Date Created: c. 600
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 203.1 x 68 x 55.5 cm (79 15/16 x 26 3/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg [1879–1947], Paris, France, Adolphe Stoclet [1871–1949], Palais Stoclet, Brussels, Belgium, Michèle Leon-Stoclet [1932–1967], Brussels, Belgium, and Barcelona, Spain, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.106
- Medium: Sandstone
- Fun Fact: Gold earrings were once fastened to the sculpture using holes in the figure's earlobes.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: Southern Cambodia, Takeo Province, Phnom Da
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: Cambodian Art
- Accession Number: 1973.106
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