They marveled at the beauty of art from ancient China as the Tianlongshan Grottoes digital exhibition opened in Athens, Greece on Saturday.
Visitors were inspired by the beauty of 1,500-year-old Chinese grotto art after the opening of the Tianlongshan Grottoes digital exhibition in Athens, Greece on Saturday.
The grotto is located on the eastern and western slopes of Tianlong Mountain in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. There are 25 caves and 500 statues spread over a distance of 500 meters.
After the Northern Dynasty began to be carved during the Eastern Wei (534-550), the grottoes are among the most magnificent works of China’s Tang Dynasty (618-907). From 1922 to 1926, large-scale looting took most of the monuments out of the country.
The exhibition in Greece uses high technology to digitally create more than 100 Tianlongshan sculptures that are spread across nine countries and about 30 museums, revealing the history of Chinese civilization and the beauty of art exchange and integration with China. The world
