Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 32
1204
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1204
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 32 is a 1204 unspecified by Unknown, a ming_painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small, busy scene: a judge in a tall hat sits at a desk while demons shove a naked man into a vat of boiling liquid. This painting is one leaf from a 50-page album used to train young artists in 1200s China. Each page showed a different god or demon so apprentices could copy the faces, poses, and costumes. The album was like a shared sketchbook for a whole workshop. To see more of these training pages, look up china, southern song dynasty (1127-1279).
