Lovers (Mithuna)
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Kde je teď „Lovers (Mithuna)“? Clevelandské muzeum umění, 244 Indian and Southeast Asian, Cleveland. Ano, právě vystaveno. Ověřeno 9. listopadu 2026.
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Lovers (Mithuna), an eleventh-century sculpture in Cleveland's Museum of Art, joins two figures in an embrace. Large eyes, linear facial features and ornaments, and sharply twisted limbs intensify their union. Erotic couples commonly appeared on Indian sacred buildings. They signaled favorable birth, flourishing life, and the world's abundance, assuring temple worshippers that prayers and offerings could bear fruit. The woman's impossible bodily turn and the exaggerated anatomy belong to this stylized treatment of lovers on a sacred monument. On view in gallery 244.
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Erotic imagery was a standard element on sacred monuments in India. Idealized lovers signal the auspiciousness of birth, prosperity of life, and the abundance of the created world, indicating to worshippers at the temple that their offerings and prayers would be fruitful and productive. The exaggerated size of their eyes, linearity of the facial features and ornaments, and the impossible twisting of their limbs and her body create an unnatural stylization that heightens the intensity of the scene, as the two figures seem effortlessly unified in their embrace.
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- 1982.64
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- Clevelandské muzeum umění
- Obrázek: Clevelandské muzeum umění — Museum open access
