Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting

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Title

Erotic art

Subject

Erotic sculpture--Sri Lanka
Stone carving--Nalanda Gedige, Matale--Sri Lanka. Tantric-Buddhist art

Description

Associated with Buddhist Tantric ritual is this sculpture of the male and female in an erotic posture, carved on the outside wall of the 8th century A. D., Nalanda Gedige, Sri Lanka.

Creator

Sirima Kiribamune

Source

Nalanda Gedige, Sri Lanka

Date

ca. 8th century A. D.
Period of study: 1986-1987
Version: 01/12/2012

Contributor

Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Technical Officer: Wijesinghe, Lalith
Technical Assistant: Jayasundare, Subhashini
Photographer: Madanayake, I.S.
International Center for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, Colombo

Rights

All rights reserved by International Center for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka.

Relation

Forms part of Photographic documentation of Women as depicted in early Sri Lankan sculpture and painting / Slide in present collection

Format

JPEG 2000

Language

eng

Type

image

Identifier

PDWESLSP.S.129

Coverage

ce

Citation

Sirima Kiribamune, "Erotic art," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #12626, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/12626 (accessed April 19, 2024).

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