“It looks like someone you might know, someone you might talk to.”
Curator Denise Leidy on a life-size sculpture of an arhat (or luohan, as they are known in China) from about 1000 CE.
Divinity
Denise Patry Leidy
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Contributors
Denise Patry Leidy
Curator, Department of Asian Art
Curator, Department of Asian Art
Photography by Bruce J. Schwarz
Art Mentioned
China
ca. 1000
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