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What is notable about the surviving Buddhist painting from the Unified Silla period?
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Korean art
Dragon jar, porcelain with iron-painted decoration under clear glaze, Korea, mid-17th century; in the Brooklyn Museum, New York. 31.4 × 37.1 cm. Diameter at mouth 12 cm. Diameter at base 9.5 cm.
The only Buddhist painting known to have survived from the Unified Silla period (668–935) is notable for its specific subject matter and artistic technique. The artwork depicts a Buddhist sermon taking place within a temple setting. Stylistically, the figures and architectural elements are rendered using fine gold lines applied to blue-brown paper.12