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Palazzo Vecchio by night. The Palazzo Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [paˈlattso ˈvɛkkjo] "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy.It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria, which holds a copy of Michelangelo's David statue, and the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
The Hall of Five Hundred Arhats (五百羅漢堂; Wǔbǎi Luóhàn Táng), also a modern addition, faces onto the western side of the courtyard in front of the main hall. The building has a complex floor plan, shaped like a Buddhist swastika. Bronze statues of the five hundred arhats are arranged along the arms of the swastika, with each statue ...
The Hall of the 500 Arhats Not to be confused with Guangzhou's Temple of the Five Genii, a former translation of the Temple of the Five Immortals . Hualin Temple , also known as the Temple of the Five Hundred Genii [ 1 ] [ 2 ] or Gods , [ 3 ] or Hualinsi Buddhist Temple , is a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou , China .
The Battle of Anghiari (1505) is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the Five Hundred) in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its central scene would have depicted four men riding raging war horses engaged in a struggle for possession of a standard at the Battle of Anghiari in 1440.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960), Qian Chu (929–988), the King of Wuyue (907–978), added the Hall of Five Hundred Arhats to the temple. Since then, Fangguang Temple became the Bodhimanda of Five Hundred Arhats. [2]
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In smaller Buddhist temples, statues of the Eighteen Arhats, the original followers of Gautama Buddha, are usually enshrined within the hall. [1] In larger Buddhist temples, the Arhat Hall typically enshrines statues of all the Five Hundred Arhats [], a larger grouping which encompasses other Buddhist deities such as Hayagriva and Yamantaka who take the forms of arhats. [1]