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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 ...
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]
The priest held a pen in his hand and seemed to be writing scriptures or drawing illustrations. Behind the priest are two luxuriant trees. Not only are flowers blooming on them, but a golden bird can be seen standing by, and two bunches of full-fruited grapes hang from the tops of the trees. Blue is the background color of the entire illustration.
Mani's Community Established (Japanese: 圣者伝図2) is a Manichaen silk color painting drawn in the coastal area of southern China during the yuan to ming period, [1] depicts the missionary history of Manichaeism and the establishment of its churches in three scenes.
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Drawing attention to the depiction of a flower in the central part of the fragment, Samuel N. C. Lieu instead interprets the fragment as a visionary scene of penitence in the context of the Manichaean doctrine of the imprisonment of Light in living things: "The fear is so apparent on their [the elects'] faces that von Le Coq's original ...
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 ...