Buddha, the golden legend

For the first time in France an exhibition event is dedicated to the life of the Buddha and the spread of Buddhism in Asia. The exhibition highlights the wealth of iconographic and stylistic traditions relating to the representation of the exemplary and edifying life of the founder of Buddhism. Conceived in a transversal mode, the exhibition confronts the modes of artistic expression of the different cultural areas of Asia and reveals the similarities and the originality, to better underline the diversity and the richness of the Asian arts. Articulated around the great "miracles" of the life of the Blessed (birth, awakening, first sermon, access to nirvana), the exhibition allows to admire a representative set of works from the collections of the MNAAG and to understand by the illustration the episodes of the Buddha's life. This exhibition, which presents 159 works in total, fruit of four years of preparation, offers us the keys offers us the essential keys of understanding associated with the legend of the Buddha.
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