The Bulletin of
The Cleveland Museum of Art

February 1979

Front Cover:

This is a lovely old booklet. It was published in 1979 by The Cleveland Museum of Art. The soft cover book measures 7 ½ inches by 9 inches and contains 36 pages including covers. The pages are numbered 49-84. The cover shows minor signs of wear. The cover is securely attached. The pages are printed on good quality, glossy paper and show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is very good.


Top: Black-Figure Neck-Amphora. Painted terra cotta, H. 15 15/16 inches (40.5 cm.), ca 520-510 B.C. Attributed to the “Painter of Munich 1529,” Greek, Attic. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glypothek Munchen, 1525. Bottom: Detail of a Black-Figure Neck-Amphora

Content:

A Trio of Late Black-Figure Vase Painters
Serpents, Sages, and Sorcerers in Cleveland


Black-Figure Neck-Amphora. Painted terra cotta. “Paitner of Berlin 1899.” Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, East Berlin, 1899.


Top Right: A painted scroll displayed in a monastery courtyard during the annual exhibition of sacred relics, Guita-bahil, Patan.

Bottom Right: Nepalis profit by the brief displays of such scrolls to study the legends they contain, I-bahil, Patan.


Top Right: Manjursri (the Bodhisattva of Wisdom), a Nepalese culture hero, brandishes the truncated sword by which Buddhists claim he drained the Kathmandu Valley. Gilt Bronze, H. 30 ¾ inches &78.1 cm.). Nepal, 15th century. Purchase Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Bequest. CMA 64.370

Bottom Right: Bejeweled Buddha Preaching. Opaque water colors on cotton cloth, 43 ¼ x 32 ½ inches (109.5 x 82.5 cm.). Nepal, completed in Kathmandu in AD 1648 (N.S. 769 Marga). Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund. CMA 73.69

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