| schema:description 10 | "creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: Former wall text:
Gwaneum Bosal (known as Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit; Guanyin in Chinese; and Kannon in Japanese) represents the most merciful of the attendants to Amita, the Buddha of the Western Paradise. The Buddha can be seen in Gwaneum Bosal's headdress.
Images of this deity in Korean painting are scarce. The religious text is a sutra in handscroll format, here extolling Gwaneum Bosal's virtues. In this rare example, a section of the sutra has been mounted together with the pictorial image....(more)" |
| schema:description | "digital_description: The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon in Japanese) stands with each of his feet upon a lotus blossom. The Buddha Amitabha (Amida in Japanese) appears in his headdress. The text written in golden characters attached to the top of the painting is a portion of a religious text extolling the virtues of the bodhisattva. The painter was inspired by Korean Goreyo period (918-1392) Buddhist paintings; he attempted to reproduce the diaphanous shawl sometimes seen in such early works....(more)" |
| schema:description | "technique: hanging scroll: ink and color on silk; inscription in gold ink on silk" |
| schema:description | "culture: Japan, possibly Meiji period (1868-1912)" |
| schema:description | "type: Painting" |
| schema:description | "id: 153395" |
| schema:description | "measurements: Overall: 227.9 x 75 cm (89 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.); Painting only: 155 x 51.4 cm (61 x 20 1/4 in.)" |
| schema:description | "collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Avalokiteshvara (Kannon), late 1800s to early 1900s. Japan, possibly Meiji period (1868-1912). Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk; inscription in gold ink on silk; overall: 227.9 x 75 cm (89 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.); painting only: 155 x 51.4 cm (61 x 20 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1986.8...(more)" |
