29 май 1001 г. - Shiva as Lord of Dances with a nimbus (Nataraja)

Описание:

Date: 11th century

Artist: unknown

Medium: cast bronze

Location: Musée Guimet, Paris

Function:
- Epicene quality
- Periodically destroys the universe so it can be reborn again
- he unfolds the universe out of the drum held in one of his right hands; he preserves it by uplifting his other right hand in a gesture indicating "do not be afraid"
- Shiva has a third vertical eye barely suggested between his other two eyes, He once burned the god Kama with this eye

Form:
- Vigorously dancing with one foot on a dwarf, the Demon of Ignorance; often depicted in a flaming nimbus
- Flying locks of hair terminate in rearing cobra heads
- Shiva has four hands

Comparison:
- Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- Saint Luke from the Lindisfarne Gospels
- Great Buddha from Todai-ji