Wikimedia Commons

File:Face of Bhairava for a Festival Float, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg

Original file ‎(1,462 × 1,458 pixels, file size: 926 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Face of Bhairava for a Festival Float, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Summary

edit
Description
English: Face of Bhairava for a Festival Float at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Description from the museum reads: "Face of Bhairava for a Festival Float. Around 1500-1600. Nepal (Kathmandu Valley). Mercury-gilded copper alloy, rock crystal, paint, foil, glass. A wrathful form of the Hindu god Shiva, Bhairava is the protector of the city of Kathmandu in Nepal and is venerated by both Hindus and Buddhists. Monumental, masklike faces of Bhairavas are made in Nepal for various festivals, most notably Indra-Jatra, which is celebrated over several days in early fall in the Kathmandu Valley. Within the concave face, hammered out of a single sheet of metal, is places a large pot filled with home-brewed beer. Leaves and flowers garlaned thee figures' now-missing shoulders and it is places on a platform. At the appropriate auspicious moment, the sanctified beer is released, spurting out of Bhairava's open mouth as crowds of worshipers jostle to receive a taste as a gift and a blessing from the god. Purchased with the Stella Kramrisch Fund, 1998-77-1."
Wikidata has entry Philadelphia Museum of Art (Q510324) with data related to this item.
Date 29 October 2023 (according to Exif data)
Source Own work
Author JJonahJackalope
Camera location39° 57′ 54.26″ N, 75° 10′ 52.95″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

edit
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.


This file was uploaded via Mobile Android App (Commons mobile app) 4.2.1~14b6c455b.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current03:58, 4 December 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:58, 4 December 20231,462 × 1,458 (926 KB)JJonahJackalope (talk | contribs)Uploaded using Commons Mobile App

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Face_of_Bhairava_for_a_Festival_Float,_Philadelphia_Museum_of_Art.jpg&oldid=827754097"