| Head of a Monk
Fragment of a wall painting
684-780
Loess
83 x 35 cm
This fragment comes from the Monastery ‘The
Caves of a Thousand Buddhas' (existed
366-early 13th century) at Dunhuang, Western
China. It bears a fragmentary representation of a
monk with a green nimbus; in this case we see
before us a pupil of Buddha, the face of a true
believer with intense gaze and vividly trembling
lips.
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