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5.50" x 8.00"
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7.50" x 10.00"
Buddha Poster
by Glenn DiPaola
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Buddha poster by Glenn DiPaola. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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This very nice Buddha statue (with large hands) lives in a very bright area of a stairway in the British Museum. Mind you, stairways in this museum... more
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Artist's Description
This very nice Buddha statue (with large hands) lives in a very bright area of a stairway in the British Museum. Mind you, stairways in this museum are grand - it is an honorable placement for this fantastic work. This Buddha is looking at a big Buddha statue opposite it that is so tall that it reaches up to the next floor – and these are really high floors.
It is from the late 18th or early 19th century AD, from Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar). It was made using the dry lacquer technique. The wooden and lacquered throne is a modern replacement for the lost original; it was commissioned by the Museum in Mandalay in 1995. This large Buddha image is seated in the lotus position with the legs crossed and the left hand placed in his lap. In the fingers of his right hand is a myrobalan, a small fruit with medicinal properties.
About Glenn DiPaola
I attended the University of Rhode Island where I studied photography under Bart Parker. I graduated with a BFA in fine art photography and a minor in communications. College was always b&w work, hand-processed in the dark room, using many different cameras. It was great fun. After college I worked in the photo-finishing business for many years as well as doing commercial photography. In the 80's I started to shoot only color for my artwork and never returned to the world of black & white - until 2014. I started converting my color digital images to black and white whenever I saw them as intended for bw. I believe the eye you started with does not go away. With my newest Fujifilm digital cameras, I am shooting for b&w and...
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Laurie Search
This is really beautiful with the light coming in from behind!!! :)))vf