Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Mogao Caves' has mentioned 'Art' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 2.1 Discovery and revival 3 The Library Cave 3.1 Dunhuang manuscripts 4 Art 4.1 Architecture 4.2 Murals 4.3 Sculptures 4.4 Paintings on silk and paper 4.5 Printed images 4.6 Textiles 5 Caves 6 Gallery 7 See also 8 Footnotes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links | WIKI |
| [30] Historian Xiang Da then persuaded Yu Youren, a prominent member of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), to set up an institution, the Research Institute of Dunhuang Art (which later became the Dunhuang Academy), at Mogao in 1944 to look after the site and its contents. | WIKI |
| Art[edit] | WIKI |
| [46] One of the central features of Tang art in Mogao is the representation of the paradise of the Pure Land, indicating the increasing popularity of this school of Mahayana Buddhism in the Tang era. | WIKI |
| While Buddhist art is stylistically distinct from secular art, the style of paintings in the caves often reflects that of contemporary secular painting (insofar as we know of this), especially those depicting secular scenes. | WIKI |
| The crossed ankle figure with a three-disk crown shows influence from Kushan art. | WIKI |
| Before the discovery in the Library Cave, original paintings on silk and paper from the Tang dynasty, an influential period in Chinese art, were very rare, and most of the surviving examples were copies made in later periods. | WIKI |
| Sogdian Daxc4x93nxc4x81s depicting two Zoroastrian deities once worshipped by the Sogdians Nestorian painting of Jesus Christ discovered at the Library Cave Buddhist cave art, a dancer spins while the orchestra plays. | WIKI |
| The unique artistic style of Dunhuang art is not only the amalgamation of Han Chinese artistic tradition and styles assimilated from ancient Indian and Gandharan customs, but also an integration of the arts of the Turks, ancient Tibetans and other Chinese ethnic minorities. | UNESCO |
| Criteria (i): The group of caves at Mogao represents a unique artistic achievement both by the organization of space into 492 caves built on five levels and by the production of more than 2,000 painted sculptures, and approximately 45,000 square meters of murals, among which are many masterpieces of Chinese art. | UNESCO |