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"title": "Amit\u0101bha Triad",
"title_in_original_language": "\u963f\u5f4c\u9640\u4e09\u5c0a\u5716",
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"department": "Chinese Art",
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"measurements": "Painting: 95.3 x 50.2 cm (37 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 196.2 x 73.3 cm (77 1/4 x 28 7/8 in.)",
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"id": 302039,
"title": "Year in Review (1961)",
"description": "Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).",
"opening_date": "1961-11-01T05:00:00"
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"title": "The Art of Southern Sung China",
"description": "The Art of Southern Sung China. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 15-April 15, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-02-15T05:00:00"
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"title": "Korean Gallery 236 Rotation",
"description": "Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 16, 2018-January 20, 2019).",
"opening_date": "2018-07-16T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 666889,
"title": "Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation",
"description": "Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-September 1, 2024).",
"opening_date": "2024-05-10T04:00:00"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29, 2013-December 23, 2013).",
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"date": "?\u20131961",
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"did_you_know": "Amita is flanked by a pair of bodhisattvas, compassionate beings who aid others to reach enlightenment.",
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"description": "This hanging scroll illustrates an apparition of Buddha Amit\u0101bha (\u963f\u5f4c\u9640 in Chinese) and two attendant bodhisattvas, in the midst of colorful light and swirling clouds. The one who carries a miniature image of Amit\u0101bha in its jeweled crown is Avalokite\u015bvara (\u89c0\u97f3 in Chinese); the other who carries a flower vase is Mah\u0101sth\u0101mapr\u0101pta (\u5927\u52e2\u81f3 in Chinese).
Previously, this work was identified as a rare example of a Korean Buddhist painting from the early Joseon period. In contrast to surviving Korean works from this time the scroll stands out for its fine details. However, other elements such as the striped almond-shaped halo that encircles the main Buddha, firm red lines that define each deity\u2019s facial features, and the flowing garments may identify it as an early Ming period Chinese Buddhist painting.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 365",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n385"
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"citation": "Shin, Junhyoung Michael. \u201cThe Face-to-Face Advent of the Amit\u0101bha Triad: A Fifteenth-Century Welcoming Descent.\u201d Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, vol. 6, 2001, pp. 28\u201347.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 29",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079712"
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