Kali attacking Nisumbha
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0100
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0100; 1968.44
- Author or attribution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Record type
- Museum record
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- n.d.
- Source / repository
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies
Description and curator notes
This collection record identifies a painted battle involving Kali and Nisumbha and interprets the combat within goddess mythology. It supplies a dated regional example for readers comparing narrative cycles with Sanskrit textual accounts. The complete description and object metadata are available without login, making it a useful short reference in an iconography section.
KALI-0100 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
Access and reliability assessments below are supplied by the curator's 4–5 November 2026 research release, not a new independent verification.
Author / attribution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Publication: Cleveland Museum of Art · n.d.
Artwork dated c. 1740; accession 1968.44.
Format / language: Museum catalog record · English
Artwork date: c. 1740 (not the publication date of this catalog record)
Identifier: 1968.44
Kali relevance: Written documentation of Kali iconography in a museum collection.
Context: Indian painting; Kalighat and Himalayan regional traditions.
Subjects: Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies
Evidence / reliability: Institutional or scholarly secondary source
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-05. Free-to-read catalog text. The object page permits reuse of the artwork image; that statement should not automatically be extended to all modern prose.
Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1968.44
Source access
Read or locate the original source at Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights and reading conditions
Complete text checked 2026-11-05. Free-to-read catalog text. The object page permits reuse of the artwork image; that statement should not automatically be extended to all modern prose. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.
Citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. Kali attacking Nisumbha. Cleveland Museum of Art · n.d..
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