, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Chakrasamvara and Nairatmya, 19th century
Unknown (Nepalese - 19th century)
opaque watercolour on cotton
91 x 67.5 cm
Gift of Max Tanenbaum, Toronto, 1980
National Gallery of Canada (no. 26876)
In Himalayan art the iconography of divinities remains the same whether painted or sculpted. In this sense, even sculpture in the round is intended to be seen frontally.
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