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Standing Amitabha
800s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Buddhist teachings emphasize the pursuit of spirituality, rather than physicality, to achieve enlightenment. This statue’s artist, however, made genuine efforts to represent the divine’s beautiful voluminous body. Inspired by Indian Gupta period art (300s–500s CE), this particular artistic style emphasizing soft modeling and naturalism was further developed in China and flourished across East Asia.
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- Title: Standing Amitabha
- Date Created: 800s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 25.4 cm (10 in.); with tang: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Robert H. Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.34
- Medium: gilt bronze
- Fun Fact: This Korean statue has a stylistic affinity with statues from the Indian Gupta period (300s–500s CE) that emphasize soft modeling and naturalism.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Unified Silla period (676-935)
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: Korean Art
- Accession Number: 1988.34
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