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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 ...
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wiktionary; ... Manichaean art (2 C, 3 P) C. Chinese Manichaeism (1 C, 14 P) F.
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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 .
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 ...
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.
Eight silk hanging scrolls with Manichaean didactic images from southern China from between the 12th and the 15th centuries, which can be divided into four categories: Two single portraits (depicting Mani and Jesus) Icon of Mani; Manichaean Painting of the Buddha Jesus; One scroll depicting Salvation Theory (Soteriology)