The Pure Land of Amitabha (Q18579109)

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movement: Ming dynasty (Q9903) Chinese art (Q756615)
genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: no value
collection: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
material used: polychromy (Q183127) gesso (Q1514256) plaster (Q274988) Bambuseae (Q35922) gold leaf (Q929186)
location of final assembly: People's Republic of China (Q148)
fabrication method: gilding (Q1334300)
depicts: Amitābha Buddha (Q236242) halo (Q3341893) woman (Q467) man (Q8441)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/the-pure-land-of-amitabha/

information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog

description: The Pure Land of Amitabha is one of the most important Chinese works of art in the collection. The front of the mural was conserved in 1988-89. The Museum now wants to open up several “windows” on the back of the mural to show that underneath smoke damage from a fire at some point in its

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