At a Glance
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(From left) Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, the three Hindu gods of the Trimurti.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Ramesh and Urmil Kapoor (M.86.337), www.lacma.org
Bronze statuette of Zeus from Dodona, Greece, early 5th century bce;...
Antikenabteilung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Gaea, terra-cotta statuette from Tanagra, Greece; in the Musée Borély, Marseille.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Vedic king of the gods Indra riding his elephant, Airavata; painting from the 18th...
Pramod Chandra
Venus and Adonis, oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, mid- or late 1630s;...
Photograph by Katie Chao. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of Harry Payne Bingham, 1937 (37.162)
Sculpture of Nandi at Chamundi Hill, Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka, India.
© Aleksandar Todorovic/Shutterstock.com
Guandi (centre) with his son (left) and squire (right), mural in Guanlin Temple,...
© Shawn McCullars
Brahma, a major god of Hinduism, shown holding a rosary (or sceptre), an alms bowl,...
© reddees/iStock.com
Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) footed plate depicting the birth of Venus, by Francesco...
Photograph by Joel Parham. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection, 50.9.17
Ramses II making an offering to Horus, at Abu Simbel, now located in Aswān muḥāfaẓah...
Dennis Jarvis (CC-BY-2.0) (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Statue of Shiva in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka state, India.
© Rameshng—Moment/Getty Images
Guanyin, painted wood sculpture from China, Northern Song dynasty, c. 1025; in the...
Photograph by global-hawaii. Honolulu Academy of Arts, purchase, 1927 (2400)
Shintō deity, wood sculpture, Japan, Heian period, 12th century; in the Honolulu...
Photograph by Christopher Hu. Honolulu Academy of Arts, gift of Mrs. Theodore A. Cooke & Miss Renee Halbedl, 1961 (2829.1)
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