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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 ...
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.
In her book Mani's Pictures: The Didactic Images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China, the Hungarian-born American art historian Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, who is also a specialist in Manichaean art, explaining the possible relation between this painting and Mani's Book of Pictures. She argues that ...
Chinese Manichaean art (9 P) E. Manichaean art of East Central Asia (10 P) Pages in category "Manichaean art" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Simple English; Slovenčina; ... Manichaean art (2 C, 3 P) C. Chinese Manichaeism (1 C, 14 P) F. Former Manichaeans (1 P) M. Manichaean texts (1 C, 26 P) Manichaeans ...
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.
Pages in category "Manichaean art of East Central Asia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. L.
Some modern scholars have suggested that Manichaean ways of thinking influenced the development of some of Augustine's ideas, such as the nature of good and evil, the idea of hell, the separation of groups into elect, hearers, and sinners, and the hostility to the flesh and sexual activity, and his dualistic theology.