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- The Eleventh Arhat (Luohan), Rahula (Luohuluo), Reciting a Sūtra, mid-14th century; Yuan dynasty (1279–1368); Chinese; hanging scroll: ink and color on silk; 50 x 24 1/2 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 851:1920
Chinese Buddhist Art, 10th-15th Centuries
Price: free admission
Very rarely does an art exhibition include the actual wall an artist worked on, but the Saint Louis Art Museum does so for Chinese Buddhist Art, 10th-15th Centuries. A six-foot-by-four-foot section of a temple wall that has a painting of the Bodhisattva Akalokiteśvara (Guanyin) on one side is the focal point of the exhibition, and an exceptionally rare object. The show also includes four hanging scrolls, and a never-before-displayed painted, wooden sculpture of a seated arhat, the Buddhist term for a person who has achieved enlightenment. Chinese Buddhist Art, 10th-15th Centuries is open Tuesday through Sunday (March 30 to August 30) in gallery 225 of the Saint Louis Art Museum (1 Fine Arts Drive; www.slam.org). Admission is free.
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Saint Louis Art Museum
- 1 Fine Arts Dr , Forest Park , St. Louis St. Louis - Forest Park MO 63110
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314-721-0072
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