A portrait of the god Shiva with blue skin and dark matted hair, eyes lowered in meditation, three horizontal stripes of white ash and a red mark on the forehead, and a white crescent moon at his temple, against a deep blue ground.

Room 02 · Devotional

Adiyogi

Shiva as the first of yogis — ash on the brow, the crescent at the temple, the eyes half-closed on the inward thing.

Hangs in Devotional, room 02 of 14: Older grammars — folk, ornament, and the painted god — kept alive by copying them well.

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