BUDA

Thai Buddhist art presents stylistic characteristics that make it easily recognizable from other schools or periods in East Asia. It maintains the formal iconographic characteristics that identify Buddha, but from the so-called Bangkok style, they give him a princely category through a rich clothing and a vertical development of the halo or mandorla of light, as a crown-tiara. As peculiar elements it is frequent that he is covered with a parasol, as the two hooks that appear in the back of the Buddha (cat. nº 76) of this collection seem to indicate. I.C.F. Extracted from: Isabel CERVERA FERNÁNDEZ: Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta. Asian Art Collection. Granada, 2002.