{"id":22811,"date":"2015-12-23T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/135772231251"},"modified":"2017-01-27T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:14:26","slug":"encountering-vishnu-the-lion-avatar-in-indian-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=22811","title":{"rendered":"Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_nzt64igqUR1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nzt64igqUR1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nzt64igqUR1sbj0vuo1_500-172x187.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple Drama.<br \/>\nFive rare wooden sculptural masks made in India\u2014recently acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York\u2014will be highlighted in the special exhibition Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple Drama, opening at the Met on December 19. Worn by actors in dramatic plays that were presented during religious festivals in southern India, the masks represent a largely unrecorded category of late medieval devotional art from India.  The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund.  The appearances of Vishnu in many guises, known as avatars, are most famously celebrated in his Ten Avatars (Dasavatar).<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/MZPCGL\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/MZPCGL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/57feb1d267a32f56f2cead388f37ce92\/tumblr_nzt64igqUR1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple Drama.<br \/>\nFive rare wooden sculptural masks made in India&mdash;recently acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York&mdash;will be highlighted in the special exhibition Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple Drama, opening at the Met on December 19. Worn by actors in dramatic plays that were presented during religious festivals in southern India, the masks represent a largely unrecorded category of late medieval devotional art from India.  The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund.  The appearances of Vishnu in many guises, known as avatars, are most famously celebrated in his Ten Avatars (Dasavatar).<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/MZPCGL\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/MZPCGL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41583,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions\/41583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}