Lord Shiva statue in Louvre Abu Dhabi

Louvre Abu Dhabi (LAD), which is an upcoming $630 million museum is reported to have Dancing Shiva statue in its permanent collection.

The status is a tenth century lost-wax bronze one from Tamil Nadu, India of Chola period. A video posted on the LAD website explains the meaning behind various parts of the statue. It is considered a superb example of Indian Chola-period bronze casting and represents the Hindu deity Shiva in an iconographic form known as Nataraja, or Lord of the Dance.

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