Vajrabhairava with Vajravetali

ca. 1800

185.4 cm 307.3 cm

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With nine heads, thirty-four arms, and sixteen legs, the wrathful Buddhist deity Vajrabhairava presents an imposing image. Here seen in union with his consort, Vajravetali, his aim is no less than to destroy death itself, and thus his form must out-terrify that which many of u...

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Rudolph Antiquities, New York; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, December 1967; given to Walters Art Museum, 2015.
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