DOI Heft:
Nr. 332 (January 1925)
DOI Artikel:Perrault, James: Chinese Bodhisattvas
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0039
inceRnACionAL
KNEELING FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA, STONE T ANG DYNASTY
had only a kind of appealing loveliness that was (1280 to 1368), of which the mighty Kublai Khan
the first downward step in the direction of the is the outstanding figure, religion and art alike
"agreeable" Ming types. The figure shown in the fell under Thibetan influence and we have a fore-
ihustration is probably from the north, but like taste of the commonplace conventionalism of the
most Sung sculpture, it is a little cloying. It may Mings.
be damned with the very faint praise of the The correct thing to say about Buddhist
epithet charming. In the following Yuan dynasty sculpture under the Ming emperors is nothing at
JANUARY I925
two ninety-nine
KNEELING FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA, STONE T ANG DYNASTY
had only a kind of appealing loveliness that was (1280 to 1368), of which the mighty Kublai Khan
the first downward step in the direction of the is the outstanding figure, religion and art alike
"agreeable" Ming types. The figure shown in the fell under Thibetan influence and we have a fore-
ihustration is probably from the north, but like taste of the commonplace conventionalism of the
most Sung sculpture, it is a little cloying. It may Mings.
be damned with the very faint praise of the The correct thing to say about Buddhist
epithet charming. In the following Yuan dynasty sculpture under the Ming emperors is nothing at
JANUARY I925
two ninety-nine