Artwork
Text, folio 115 (verso) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Manuscript of the Supreme Array)
Text, folio 115 (verso) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Manuscript of the Supreme Array) is an unspecified painting by the Byzantine icon painting artist Unknown. It dates from 1104 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This artwork is a page from an ancient manuscript, specifically a Gandavyuha-sutra, a Buddhist scripture.
About this work
Overview
This artwork is a page from an ancient manuscript, specifically a Gandavyuha-sutra, a Buddhist scripture. The page features text written in Sanskrit.
Technique & Style
The text is rendered in intricate script with decorative elements such as flourishes and dots. The page's rough texture and light brown color suggest it is made of parchment or vellum.
Subject & Meaning
The content of the text is part of the Gandavyuha-sutra, a key scripture in Mahayana Buddhism. The manuscript's significance lies in its preservation of sacred Buddhist texts.
Artist & collection
Domestic Scene
Giacomo and Cardinal Marco, investing Andrea, Abbot of San Zeno, with his Benefice
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Portrait of a Woman
Madonna and Child with Saints in the Enclosed Garden
Venus and Minerva
Family Group of Four on Sofa
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Text, folio 20 (verso) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)
Text, Folio 18 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, folio 185 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, Folio 15 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, folio 172 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, folio 168 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, Folio 78 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, Folio 81 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)