enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Manichaean art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaean_art

    The seal of Mani, the oldest known Manichaean art. Manichaeism has a rich tradition of visual art, starting with Mani himself writing the Book of Pictures. [1]One of Mani's primary beliefs was that the arts (namely painting, calligraphy, and music) were of the same esteem as the divine spirit (Middle Persian: Mihryazd), believing that the creation of art was comparable to god's creation of ...

  3. File:Jesus as a Manichaean Prophet, 13th century.jpg

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jesus_as_a_Manichaean...

    The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

  4. Manichaean temple banner MIK III 6286 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaean_temple_banner...

    Manichaean Temple Banner Number "MIK Ⅲ 6286" is a Manichaean monastery flag banner collected in Berlin Asian Art Museum, made in the 10th century AD. It was found in Xinjiang Gaochang by a German Turpan expedition team at the beginning of the 20th century. The flag streamer is 45.5 cm long and 16 cm wide, with painted portraits on both sides.

  5. Arzhang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arzhang

    Following the discovery of Manichaean paintings in Turfan, art historian Thomas W. Arnold suggested that the Manichaean tradition of illustrative bookmaking was the source of Persian miniature painting style during the time of the Safavid Empire. Arnold stated: "The only other religious art that could have produced these pictures was the ...

  6. Birth of Mani - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_Mani

    The Birth of Mani is a Manichean silk cloth color painting painted in the Fujian Zhejiang area during the Yuan period, depicting the founder of the sect Mani The scene of birth, a scholar who specializes in Manichaeism Ma Xiaohe called it "a rare treasure". [1]

  7. Manichaean Diagram of the Universe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaean_Diagram_of_the...

    Thus, this painting is best classified as a late medieval and uniquely Chinese development of Manichaean didactic art. Its thirteenth/fourteenth-century iconography greatly expands upon a core set of Manichaean motifs, while conveying Manichaean doctrine in a distinctly Chinese visual language of its time. [6]

  8. Turpan Manichaean texts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan_Manichaean_texts

    They discovered important documents and works of art (including a magnificent wall-painting of a Manichaean bishop [mozhak], previously mistakenly identified as Mani [1]) and the remains of a Nestorian (Christian) church near ancient Khocho (Qara-khoja or Gaochang), a ruined ancient city, built of mud, 30 km (19 mi) east of Turfan.

  9. Manichaean wall painting MIK III 6918 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaean_wall_painting...

    Fragment of Manichaean Wall Painting "MIK Ⅲ 6918" is a fragment of a Manichaean mural collected in Germany Berlin Asian Art Museum, painted around the 10th century AD, and was found by the German Turpan expedition team in the ruins of Gaochang, in Xinjiang. The fragment is 88 centimeters long and 168.5 centimeters wide.