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
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Chinese Buddhist Art, 10th-15th Centuries
When: Tuesdays-Sundays. Continues through Sept. 30 2018
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.