The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya ArtKimbell Art Museum, 1986 - 335 pages An illustrated study of the Maya civilization, drawing from interpretations of the texts embedded in pictorial scenes or carved on stone tablets to provide the meaning of the art and architecture of the ancient culture. |
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... front head ; it is not a fusion of two bodies . In contrast to the front head , the rear head is usually inverted because it was carried as a burden by the crocodile . This head has a blunt snout , fleshy eyes and a skeletal lower jaw ...
... front head ; it is not a fusion of two bodies . In contrast to the front head , the rear head is usually inverted because it was carried as a burden by the crocodile . This head has a blunt snout , fleshy eyes and a skeletal lower jaw ...
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... front head of Celestial Monster bloody cloth ladder scaffolding blood stream earth band FIGURE II.4 Stela 11 sacrificial victim on altar Piedras Negras , Guatemala Late Classic period , A.D. 731 rear head of Celestial Monster blood ...
... front head of Celestial Monster bloody cloth ladder scaffolding blood stream earth band FIGURE II.4 Stela 11 sacrificial victim on altar Piedras Negras , Guatemala Late Classic period , A.D. 731 rear head of Celestial Monster blood ...
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... front of the Fat Cacique , overlap the doors from both directions , setting up a spatial ambiguity that helps to circulate the viewer around the pot . The Fat Cacique is simply dressed , in a hipcloth , jade necklace and headdress . In ...
... front of the Fat Cacique , overlap the doors from both directions , setting up a spatial ambiguity that helps to circulate the viewer around the pot . The Fat Cacique is simply dressed , in a hipcloth , jade necklace and headdress . In ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 6 |
Chapters | 63 |
Kingship and the Rites of Accession | 103 |
Droits d'auteur | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
accession ahau appears architectural Art Museum ball ballcourt ballgame ballplayers belt Bird Jaguar blood bloodletting body Bonampak cahal captives carved Cauac Celestial Monster celt ceramic Chac-Xib-Chac Chan-Bahlum Classic Maya cloth Copan costume death depicted dressed earflare Early Classic period event FIGURE figurine Floyd Lounsbury glyph gods Guatemala head headband headdress Hero Twins Hieroglyphic Honduras human Hunahpu imagery inscriptions jade Jester Kan-Xul katun Kimbell Kimbell Art Museum king Late Classic period Late Preclassic period Leiden Plaque Lintel Long Count lord Lowlands maize mask Maya art Maya civilization Mesoamerica monuments moon Olmec Pacal painted Palenque panel Pauahtun pectoral personified Piedras Negras Pilas PLATE Popol Vuh portrait recorded rite ritual ruler sacrifice scene scribes scroll sculpture Seibal shell Shield Jaguar Stela stone Structure supernatural symbols Tikal Uaxactun Underworld Venus Vision Serpent warrior water-lily wears World Tree worn Xibalba Yax-Pac Yaxchilan zoomorphic