Several artists of the middle and late T'ang such as Kuan Hsiu and Chang Hsuan were celebrated for their portraits of Lohans, and excavations have recently brought to light accounts from the Five Dynasties period of Lohan images being made for parents, family and the owner himself for veneration and worship, so clearly the Lohan cult was popular at the time.
深得畫家青睞中、晚唐畫家中有不少以繪羅漢聞名，如貫休、張玄等，近代出土的五代時器物文獻中，也發現不少為父母、自身、親人塑造羅漢像、供養禮拜的記載，可見羅漢信仰確曾風光一時，不過畫家們繪羅漢，還有別的因素。