Artworks

Wall paintings of the Kondō, Hōryūji

法隆寺金堂壁画

Artwork · Anonymous · c. 7th century · wall painting · Hōryū-ji Temple

Twelve murals of the golden hall: four wide panels with the Buddhas of the four directions in their paradises — among them Amida on the west wall between Kannon and Seishi — and narrow panels with bodhisattvas. Painted on plaster from cartoons transferred by pouncing, the lines in red of even width (“iron wire”), the style close to the Tang paintings of China. A fire in 1949 left most of them blackened; the Amida Triad is in the Treasure House. 1 Mason 2005, p. 82, fig. 101. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.