Halo (religious Iconography) - Gallery - Egypt and Asia

Egypt and Asia

  • Ra with solar disc, before 1235 BC

  • The Kushan Kanishka casket of 127, with Brahma, the Buddha and Indra.

  • Northern Wei Buddhist bronze, 524, with two-ringed halo within a flaming mandorla

  • Chola Nataraja with an aureole of flames, 11th century

  • Hindu figure, 11th century

  • modern murti of Vishnu, with halo created by lighting

  • The Mughal emperor Jahangir often had himself depicted with a halo of unprecedented size. ca. 1620

  • A multi-limbed Tibetan deity surrounded by an aureole of fire and smoke, 19th century. (Thangka of the Hayagriva)

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