The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own open-access collection API record for "Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha," a distemper and gold on cloth painting from Tibet, early to mid-12th century. The record's own title names the subject outright. Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1993. Accession number 1993.479.
Facts
Citation
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38006
Source TypeMuseum
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The holding museum's own open-access collection API record for the accessioned painting, the strongest available record for its attribution, date and accession number, whose own title names the subject outright. Connections
Associated With
This source names Atisha directly: "for "Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha," a distemper and gold on cloth painting from Tibet, early to mid-12th century."
Source Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha, accession 1993.479 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)
This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 11 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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