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Sculpture for the ancient Maya spans all media, from the miniature to the monumental, as artists gave shape to materials extracted from the landscape. Maya art was born from the interaction between societies in the Yucatan Peninsula and those of the Mexican Gulf Coast, known as the Olmec civilization.
- Ancient Maya Painted Ceramics
Maya kings and queens, sitting on similar thrones in the...
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[Aaron Furman Gallery, New York, until 1962]; Nelson A....
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San Francisco and New York: Fine Arts Museums of San...
- Mexico, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D
Key Events. ca. 950 B.C. Olmec San Lorenzo loses political...
- Maize God Emerging From a Flower
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "Art of Ancient Maya," March...
- Maya Area, 1000–1400 A.D
“The collapse of the dynastic Maya city-states in the...
- Ancient Maya Painted Ceramics
Maya kings and queens, sitting on similar thrones in the human realm, often impersonated deities through costume and performance, perhaps reenacting the scenes on the painted pottery before them. Other, more mortal rituals on ceramic vessels provide clues to the important activities that Maya rulers undertook.
Go on a journey to discover some stories of the Maya world, from Victorian explorers to modern technology. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, the British Museum has digitised and contextualised its Maudslay Collection of Victorian casts and photographs of ancient Maya sites.
30 lis 2022 · “ Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” the first exhibition of its kind in the United States in a decade, features nearly 100 treasures dating from 250 to 900 C.E., including two...
The Museo Popol Vuh (Popol Vuh Museum) is home to one of the major collections of Maya art in the world. It is located on the campus of the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Zone 10, Guatemala City. The museum is known for its extensive collection of pre-Columbian and colonial art of the Maya culture.
In Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries trace the life cycle of the gods, from the moment of their creation in a sacred mountain to their dazzling transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night.
The British Museum was founded in 1753, but it was not until around a hundred years later that Ancient Maya artefacts began to find their way into the collection, one by one at first, and then...
