The Three Lords of the World
Artist
Mongolian (Mongolian)Date
early 20th centuryMedium
Pigments and gold on sized clothDimensions
Work : 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (31.75 x 24.77 cm)Mat : 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
Hope College CollectionObject Number
2019.14.1Label
This image is painted in a distinctive style and may have been made in a monastery in what is now Buryatia. Unfortunately, it is not possible to attribute most Mongolian Buddhist paintings to a particular artist or workshop since few paintings are signed and much information about the workshops that produced them was lost when thousands of Mongolia’s temples and monasteries were destroyed by the country’s communist government during the 1930s and 40s.