“Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple Drama” Exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Dramas presented during religious festivals in southern India are an important aspect of popular Hindu celebration. This exhibition highlights five rare wooden sculptural masks that represent a largely unrecorded category of late medieval Indian devotional art. The masks depict the protagonists in a deadly battle between Vishnu in his man-lion avatar, Narasimha, and an evil king whose destruction was essential for the restoration of order in the universe.
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from December 19, 2015 to June 05, 2016