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Pudhu Mandapa of Tirumal Nayak (r. 1623–59), Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai
Captain Linnaeus TripeLinkedCulture matchlcp-5cad35cce517
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 384222
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The temple complex that contains this open, pillared hall is dedicated to Minakshi, a form of Parvati, and her consort, Sundareshvara, a form of Shiva. The central column depicts Shiva feeding sugarcane to an elephant. Because Linnaeus Tripe respected the Hindu temples as places of religious, historical, and artistic value, he strove to document the carvings decorating the temples, even when they were hidden in shadow. This hall was built to serve as a summer house for the gods to whom the temple is dedicated.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Private Collection, United Kingdom | 2020: (Prahlad Bubbar Indian and Islamic Art, London, United Kingdom) | September 14, 2020: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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