Manichaean Art in Berlin Collections - GULÁCSI, Zsuzsanna
KORTE INHOUD
This book is a comprehensive, descriptive catalogue of positively identified Manichaean artifacts housed in Berlin. The world's richest source of Manichaean texts and works of art is the Turfan region in East Central Asia, and the largest collection of such artifacts is found in Berlin. The Berlin Turfan collections resulted from four German expeditions that took place between 1902 and 1914. The commencement of the philological study of the thousands of manuscript fragments from Turfan led to the recognition of the first known, original Manichaean writings. Among these primary sources, Manichaean works of art were found as well. A sample of them, the best preserved items, appeared in two studies by Albert von Le Coq and a few pieces are frequently exhibited internationally and appear in catalogues published by the Berlin Museum of Indian Art. Besides these efforts, Turfan Manichaean art has enjoyed little art historical attention. A Manichaean artistic corpus has never been systematically identified among the...
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30 x 21 cm, CCLXXXVIII+350 p., + ill. Hardback. [Auteur: GULÁCSI, Zsuzsanna] [Uitgever: Brepols,] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Manichaean Art in Berlin Collections]
