Envisioning the Hindu Divine: Expanding Darshan and Manjari Sharma

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Private Landscapes and Public Territories, 1998-2011/2018; mixed media installation including painted and mirrored armoire, found objects, moss, dried flowers, faux topiaries, family photographs, miniature jeweled trees, painted wooden hedges; 120 x 240 x 300 in.; courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Michael Karibian. 

Southern German, from the area of Augsburg, Close Helmet for the Foot Tourney, about 1590, steel (formerly blued) with etching and gilding, and brass, 31.8 × 22.9 × 34.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 × 13 1/2 in.), 11 lb., 15 oz (weight), The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014.1113. Image © 2021 Worcester Art Museum, all rights reserved.

Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007), Play at Dark, 1935, oil on canvas board. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. 

The Milwaukee Lithographing and Engraving Company, 1852–1920, Lone Star Brewing Co., San Antonio, 1903, Colored lithograph on paper, 27 x 41 1/2 in. (68.6 x 105.4 cm), Museum purchase, 74.93

Relief with a herdsman and cow before a sanctuary, Roman, late 1st century B.C.-mid-1st century A.D., marble, 11 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (29.85 x 33.65 cm), State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptothek Munich, Photograph by Renate Kühling

Alfredo Ramos Martínez (Mexican, 1871–1946), La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Oil paint on canvas; 50 x 40 1/2 in. Phoenix Art Museum: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art, 1979.86. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project, reproduced by permission

Wada, Waichisai III (1899-1975), Flower Basket, 1945-72, Madake, rattan, wood and urushi covered metal beads, Object: 12.5 x 11 x 12 in., Otōshi: 10.75 x 3.875 x 3.875 in., Tomobako: 13.25 x 11.75 x 13 in., 4.6 lb., Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma, © Artist or artist estate, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, photo by TAI Modern.

Portrait of a man, Roman, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D., Marble, Lent by the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes.