Our sculpture would probably have been at the door of a temple, welcoming families as they approached, and offerings would have been made not just to Shiva but to Parvati, to the pair of them as a ...

Shiva and Parvati sculpture (made in twelfth or thirteenth century). Stone statue; from Orissa, India. There are many surprises about working in the British Museum, and one of them is that we ...

And Parvati thought this was offensive to her husband so she cursed Chitraketu that he would have to take life as a demon. So there’s this little kind of vignette of the character of Shiva and ...

An 1,100-year-old sculpture addresses the unity and division of gender. ... Parvati performed acts of extreme asceticism and penance. He rewarded her by absorbing her into himself.

A bronze sculpture of Parvati, standing a little over 2.5-ft tall, fetched a hammer price of Rs5.40 crore at a live auction of Indian classical art held at the Saffronart gallery in Dadar on ...

A Chola-era bronze sculpture of Shiva and Parvati stolen from Tamil Nadu and smuggled into the US is set for eventual return to India.

The sculpture which is 70.5x38.1x13.07 cm went through a study in 2021. In this study conducted by Department of Archaeology of Nepal, and by the Yale Art Gallery it was confirmed that the ...

Our sculpture would probably have been at the door of a temple, welcoming families as they approached, and offerings would have been made not just to Shiva but to Parvati, to the pair of them as a ...