Mural Painting Section
C492.7
From: China | Shanxi | Hongtong | Guangshengsi
Curatorial Section: Asian
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Object Number
C492.7
Current Location
Collections Storage
Culture
Chinese | Buddhist
Provenience
China | Shanxi | Hongtong | Guangshengsi
Period
Ming Dynasty
Date Made
ca. 1476
Section
Asian
Materials
Mud | Seeds | Straw | Leaves | Tempera
Technique
Painted | Mural
Iconography
Tejaprabha Buddha
Description
Middle bottom panel showing the base of Tejaprabha Buddha's pedestal.
Height
86.36 cm
Width
119.38 cm
Credit Line
Purchased from C. T. Loo, 1926
Other Number
Panel 16 - Other Number
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
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Seymann, Michelle B. "Monumental Wall Paintings of the Assembly of the Buddha from Shanxi Province: Historiography, Iconography, Three Styles, and a New Chronology." Artibus Asiae 54, no. 3/4. (1994): 241-267.
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Jing, Anning. "The Yuan Buddhist Mural of the Paradise of Bhaisajyaguru." Metropolitan Museum Journal 26. (1991): 147-166.
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Steinhardt, Nancy S. "Zhu Haogu Reconsidered: A New Date for the Rom Painting and the Southern Shanxi Buddhist-Daoist Style." Artibus Asiae XLVIII, 1/2. (1987).
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Ka-bo, Tsang. "Royal Ontario Museum, Far Eastern Department." Arts of Asia 9, no. 2. (1979): .
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Lippe, Aschwin. "Buddha and the Holy Multitude." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 23, no. 9. (1965): 325-335. See: Fig. 4
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Jayne, Horace H. "The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects ." The University Museum Bulletin 9, no. 2-3. (1941): 9-50. See: Pg. 17 on right
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"Recent Museum Acquisitions - Eastern Art." Parnassus I (December), no. 8. (1929): 30. Page/Fig./Plate: 30
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Fernald, Helen E. "Two Sections of Chinese Fresco Newly Acquired ." The Museum Journal XX, no. 2. (1929): 119-130. Page/Fig./Plate: 119-130
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Miller, J. L. "Ancient Chinese Wall Paintings: Recently Brought to This Country by the University of Pennsylvania Museum." The Mentor 16, no. 3 (April). (1928): 41-44.
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Fernald, Helen E. "Another Fresco from Moon Hill Monastery ." The Museum Journal XIX, no. 2. (1928). Page/Fig./Plate: 109-129
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Yetts, Walter P. "Some Buddhist Frescoes from China." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 51, 294. (1927). Page/Fig./Plate: 121-128, Plates I, II
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Fernald, Helen E. "Chinese Frescoes of the T'ang Dynasty in the Museum, 618-906 A.D. ." The Museum Journal XVII, no. 3. (1926). Page/Fig./Plate: 229-244
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