Cosmic Mount Meru
The setting, with beasts and floating skulls in a desolate landscape, focuses the mind of the meditator (or the initiate in a ceremony) upon mortality, and hence upon the eternal. Within the circle is a view of our world, seen from above (a sacred, imaginary conception, but ba...
Drawing
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19799
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drawing
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normalized
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provenance
Jon Rüs, Atlanta, Georgia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, 1978 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
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en
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1
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