Pair of seated Buddhas (of the Past & Present), Northern Wei pd. (518), gilt bronze. Musée Guimet, Paris. (example of "elongated" style)

Altarpiece, Northern Wei pd. (524), gilt bronze. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Standing Buddha, bodhisattvas, apsaras, and donors; mural painting, Dunhuang Cave 249, Western Wei pd. mid 6th c.

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