Focus on this artwork and discuss the abstract.
Mani's Parents is a color painting on silk drawn in the coastal areas of southern China during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. It is in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, US, and was donated by Ivory Brendage. The title given on the official website of the museum is "Fragment of a Manichaen Mandala".After Miki Morita's research, especially after comparing it with "The Birth of Mani", it is believed that the painting is a work of Manichaeism, depicting the image of the father and mother of Mani, the founder of the religion, Mani and Mani. Morita's research results were published in "Piecing a Picture Together: A New Manichaean Perspective on a Chinese Religious Painting in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco", a view which was also adopted by the religious art historian Gu Leci in her work "Mani's Pictures". This painting was originally part of a large-scale Manichean silk painting. The drawing technique and artistic style are the same as those in "The Legend of the Holy One", "The Birth of Mani" and the "Manichae Universe".
San Francisco Manichaeism Gu Leci Birth of Mani