Fw: H-ASIA: Painting Query: Power of Scriptures (2 responses)

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Subject: H-ASIA: Painting Query: Power of Scriptures (2 responses)

> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> Painting Query: Power of Scriptures (2 responses)
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> From: Uta Lauer <uta.lauer@orient.su.se>
>
> a painting with a similar content was recently shown at the Met in the big
> Yuan exhibition (autumn 2010). The painting is attributed to Yan Hui (act.
> 1270-after 1324), "The Immortal Yunfang Initiating Lü Chunyang into the
> Secret of Immortality", hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 108.6x48.9
> cm, MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Uta Lauer
> Professor of East Asian Art History, Stockholm University
> uta.lauer@orient.su.se
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> From: De-nin Lee <dlee@bowdoin.edu>
>
> I believe that the image may be Zhou Jichang's Lohan Demonstrating the
> power of the Buddhist sutras to Daoists, ca. 1178. In the Boston Museum of
> Fine Arts.
> Here's URL:
> http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/lohan-demonstrating-the-power-of-the-buddhist-sutras-to-daoists-24231
>
> De-nin Lee
> dlee@bowdoin.edu
>
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