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Article: Environmental pride: Jain Shrine.(GalleryCard)
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- School Arts
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Jain Shrine, India (Gujarat, Patan). Early seventeenth century. Wood, painted and gilded. 85 3/8 x 66 1/8 x 33" (216.9 x 168 x 84.5 cm). The William T. and Louise Taft Semple Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum 1962.459.
About the Art
A shrine is a place where religious followers can pay devotion to their spiritual leaders. The Cincinnati Art Museum's Jain shrine is an elaborate structure that allows Jains to contemplate a life of peace, discipline, and freedom from earthly desires. This shrine, an elaborately carved canopy (typically used by royalty) with two freestanding support pillars, was made during an important growth period that saw the building ...