Oglethorpe University Museum of Art

Proudly Presents

A Shower of Jewels: Wealth Deities
from the Rubin Museum of Art

Ganapati (Lord of Hosts)
Tibet; 19th Century

Reception: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.

This exhibition presents the five most prominent figures within the vivid pantheon of Buddhist deities devoted to protecting and providing wealth.  Paintings of these deities are filled with imagery that reinforces and reflects their wealth-granting power, including cultural and religious symbols of affluence, auspiciousness and abundance.

In the Himalayan tradition of Tantric Buddhism, there is a class of deities dedicated to granting and guarding wealth. This divine category appears contradictory, coming from a belief system that is identified with nonattachment to material well-being. Nonetheless, it is justified by the belief that wealth can provide freedom from the cares of human life that divert us from finding a path to liberation from suffering. In the hands of one who seeks enlightenment, wealth may become an instrument of compassion and a means to achieve spiritual goals.

also on view at the museum...

The Permanent Collection:
Realism Revisited

Pierre Bonnard - French, 1867 - 1947
La Revue blache, 1894
Lithograph, 30 1/2'' x 24 3/8"

This exhibition focuses on new ideas of realism by displaying the breadth of the museum's fine collection and recent acquisitions. Over the last 25 years, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art has been collecting notable works of realism for its permanent collection of paintings, sculpture and prints.

The collection now includes new acquisitions donated by Drs. Yolanta and Isaac Melamed.  Of particular significance are works by Francoise Boucher, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Gustave Leheutre.

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from noon until 5:00 p.m.

Docent Tours: Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
Free and ample parking is available.

Admission: $5 per person; free for museum members
and children under 12.

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