Buddhist Deities
This painting is a fragment of a much larger banner painting, now preserved by mounting on a four-panel continuous folding screen. On the back are Buddhist sutra pages, with text written in gold ink on indigo dyed paper.
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- 1700s–1800s
- Dimensions
- painting only: height 1.14 m, width 1.152 m; overall: height 1.475 m, width 1.238 m
- Department
- Korean Art
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Mitsuru Tajima in memory of Robert P. Bergman
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Deities and Holy Figures Both · 99%
The title identifies the subject as Buddhist Deities, while the image shows numerous sacred-looking human figures in elaborate robes and headdresses arranged in a devotional or ceremonial pictorial assembly.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 99%
Numerous overlapping figures, clouds, garments, and decorative motifs occupy the central image field, creating a compact and crowded arrangement.
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Patterns Visual · 98%
Repeated textile designs, cloud scrolls, ornamental borders, and recurring decorative motifs structure the surface throughout the painting.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 95%
The image contains extensive decorative detail in the figures’ clothing, headdresses, facial features, cloud forms, and surrounding borders, although abrasion and paint loss affect the surface.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The work is cataloged as a painting, and the image clearly shows a painted figural composition.
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Screen Format Metadata · 99%
The catalog describes the object as preserved on a four-panel continuous folding screen, and the image visibly shows four vertical hinged panels carrying a continuous composition.
Time Periods
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Pre-20th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The museum dates the work broadly to the 1700s–1800s, placing it within the pre-twentieth-century period without establishing a single exact century.
Geographic Regions
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Asian Art Metadata · 99%
The museum classifies the work as Korean Art and identifies its place of origin as Korea during the Joseon dynasty; the catalog provides Asian Art as the applicable geographic category.
Materials
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Natural Fibers Metadata · 99%
The museum specifies ink and color on silk; silk is a natural fiber, although the fiber cannot be independently identified from the image alone.
Cultural and Religious Styles
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Buddhist Art and Architecture Both · 98%
The Buddhist subject is established by the museum title and description, and the image visibly presents a traditional Buddhist religious figural composition.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Buddhist Deities. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 5,759 × 6,612 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available