The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Standing Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Standing Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

Period:: pre-Angkor period
Date:: 8th–early 9th century
Culture:: Thailand or Cambodia
Medium:: Bronze inlaid with obsidian(?)
Dimensions:: H. 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1999
Accession Number:: 1999.90

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 246

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