明, 吳彬, 十六羅漢圖, 卷, The Sixteen Luohans, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1591, China, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 12 5/8 x 163 9/16 in. (32.1 x 415.4 cm), Paintings, Wu Bin (active ca. 1583–1626), In the Chinese popular imagination, mendicant monks, conjurers, and mysterious hermits were often thought to be disguised “living luohans,” or Buddhist holy men capable of producing miracles. When government corruption and ineptitude imperiled social order, as it did in late Ming times, such superstitious messianic beliefs became more widespread
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明, 吳彬, 十六羅漢圬 卷, Sixteen Luohans, Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, dated 1591, China, Handscroll, ink, color, paper, Image, 12 5/8 x 163 9/16, 32.1 415.4 cm, Paintings, Wu Bin, active ca., 1583–1626, Chinese popular imagination, mendicant monks, conjurers, mysterious hermits, thought, disguised, living, luohans, Buddhist holy, men, capable, producing miracles, government corruption, ineptitude imperiled, social, order, late Ming, times, superstitious messianic, beliefs, widespread
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