Heilbrunn Timeline Of Art History: The Birth Of The Buddha

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The Buddha Siddhartha Gautama is a historical figure, founder of philosophy and religion Buddhist, the first major world religion, which soon spread throughout Asia. The story goes that the Buddha was born in 563 B.C. in terms of a family of Kshatriyas. His birth was announced in the dream of his father, in the same, Siddhartha became a beggar. To avoid this, Gautama is deprived of his liberty soon after, but when he grows old escapes and discover pain. Time after he says goodbye to his family and becomes a monk in order to find out why people suffer. In his journey he meets yogis and ascetics, and decides to sit below a Bodhi tree until he finds that the reason for human suffering is desire. The Buddha in meditation finally comes …show more content…

According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website, “The nativity, with its symbolism of cosmic renewal, is one of the most important events in the story of the Buddha's life and is celebrated as an annual rite on the Buddhist ritual calendar. A reenactment of the first bath, where a small icon of the standing child with arm raised in the gesture of proclamation is placed in a basin and purified with water, is a significant part of this celebration. This rare and unusual fourteenth-century painting most likely decorated a temple hall as part of a complete cycle of events from the Buddha's life used to instruct worshippers.” The painting of ‘The Birth of the Buddha’ doesn’t have a painter because up to this point in life, the painting continues to have an anonymous artist. All that it shows is that it was painted in Japan from 1000 – 1400 A.D. According to the ‘Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website the painting is formed like this, “Period: Muromachi period (1392–1573), Date: early 15th century, Culture: Japan, Medium: Section of a wall panel mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, Dimensions: 29 1/2 x 43 7/8 in. (75 x 111.5

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