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The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
November 2002–September 2003
Vidya Dehejia, guest curator, is deputy director and chief curator at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution.
While small-scale images in bronze began to be produced in India during the eighth century, it was under the rule of the Chola dynasty (ninth through thirteenth centuries) that the art of bronze casting in South India reached its pinnacle. Curated by Vidya Dehejia, this exhibition of sixty exemplary works was the first to survey the art of Chola bronzes, famed for their subtlety of modeling and fluent outline of form.
Exhibition Itinerary: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (November 10, 2002–March 9, 2003); Dallas Museum of Art (April 4–June 15, 2003); and Cleveland Museum of Art (July 6–September 14, 2003).
The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
The exhibition is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Additional exhibition support is provided by Gilbert and Ann Kinney, and the Benefactors Circle of the AFA.
The symposium is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities,The Rockefeller Foundation, and Gilbert and Ann Kinney.
The catalogue is supported by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
Presentation of this exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is made possible by grants from Mary and Farhad Ebrahimi/The Ebrahimi Family Foundation, Margaret and George Haldeman, Nunda Ambegaonkar/Guari Ambegaonkar Foundation, Gilbert and Ann Kinney, and Sigrid and Vinton Cerf. Additional funding is provided by the Else Sackler Public Affairs Endowment.
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