Longmen Binyang Central Cave
The Longmen Caves complex is a UNESCO world heritage site located just south of the city of Luoyang, China. The Center for the Art of East Asia at University of Chicago is working in collaboration with partners at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, and museums and institutions around the world, to create 3d digital restorations of the Binyang Central Cave at Longmen, for the purposes of preservation, study, and education.
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Head of Standing Bodhisattva
- Title Translation: 菩萨立像头部
- Period: Northern Wei, 386–534 C.E.
- Project: Longmen Binyang Central Cave
- Work Description: The Binyangzhongdong Cave commissioned by emperor Xuanwu is a massive cave measuring 9 meters high, 11 meters wide, and 10 meters in depth. The head of the image is almost one meter tall, and is thought originally to have been the head for one of the standing attendant figures on the triad carved into the cave’s south wall. The clearly depicted eyes and nose combine with the gentle expression of its mouth to create a typical example of bodhisattva imagery from the late Northern Wei dynasty.
386 - 534