# Green Tara, in Himalayan painting

Aniko painted this in about 1260s, mounted 2020. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> For Tibetans, Green Tara is one of the preeminent figures of their Buddhist faith, a radiant savioress who embodies the female form of the perfect, enlightened mind.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1260s, mounted 2020
- Medium: thangka; gum tempera, ink, and gold on sized cotton; mount: silk
- Dimensions: Painting: 52.4 x 43.2 cm (20 5/8 x 17 in.); Overall: 107 x 65 cm (42 1/8 x 25 9/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970.156
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Aniko](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/aniko), Nepalese, active in Tibet mid- to late 1200s

1 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Aniko's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-aniko?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More paintings of the 13th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-13?hang=750) (15 works)
- [The 13th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/13?hang=750) (18 works)

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