Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 30
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 30 is a 1204 unspecified by Unknown, a ming_painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a crowded scene of judges in tall hats sitting at desks, while naked souls kneel before them in a fiery underworld. This painting is one leaf from an album used to train artists in a 1200s Chinese workshop. The judges are the Ten Kings of Hell, deciding punishments for the dead. The detail is so fine you can count the folds in the judges’ robes and the terrified faces of the souls. To see more of these hell scenes, look up china, southern song dynasty (1127-1279).
