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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PLATE 36 Sculpted bench panel Temple 1 1 , Copan, Honduras Late Classic
period, A.D. 775 Stone Right panel: 51.5 x 263.7 x 17.8 cm End piece: 50.2 x
48.9 x 12.7 cm Left panel: 50.8 x 262.5 x 13.3 cm End piece: 48.2 x 52.7 x 17.8
cm The ...
PLATE 36 Sculpted bench panel Temple 1 1 , Copan, Honduras Late Classic
period, A.D. 775 Stone Right panel: 51.5 x 263.7 x 17.8 cm End piece: 50.2 x
48.9 x 12.7 cm Left panel: 50.8 x 262.5 x 13.3 cm End piece: 48.2 x 52.7 x 17.8
cm The ...
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No record of Tonina's successful defeat of King Kan-Xul in A.D. 711 has been
discovered at Palenque, but the result is clear at Tonina, where Kan-Xul is
memorialized as a captive on a small panel that may have once formed part of a
wall or ...
No record of Tonina's successful defeat of King Kan-Xul in A.D. 711 has been
discovered at Palenque, but the result is clear at Tonina, where Kan-Xul is
memorialized as a captive on a small panel that may have once formed part of a
wall or ...
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It is from a group of at least eighteen extant panels from a yet-unidentified Maya
site (called Site Q) that once formed either the riser of a staircase or a sloping
talus of a ballcourt wall. The panels are now dispersed in collections around the ...
It is from a group of at least eighteen extant panels from a yet-unidentified Maya
site (called Site Q) that once formed either the riser of a staircase or a sloping
talus of a ballcourt wall. The panels are now dispersed in collections around the ...
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Table des matières
Foreword Emily Sano ix | 1 |
Chapters | 63 |
Kingship and the Rites of Accession | 103 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller,Justin Kerr,Kimbell Art Museum Affichage d'extraits - 1986 |
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller,Justin Kerr,Kimbell Art Museum 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 artist 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 Cylindrical vessel death depicted Dresden Codex dressed earflare Early Classic period event FIGURE figurine Floyd Lounsbury glyph glyphic gods Guatemala head headband headdress Hero Twins Hieroglyphic Honduras human Hunahpu imagery incised inscriptions jade Jester Kan-Xul katun Kimbell Late Classic period Late Preclassic period Lintel Long Count lord Lowlands maize mask Maya art Maya civilization Mesoamerica monuments Olmec Pacal painted Palenque panel 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 warriors water-lily wears World Tree worn Xibalba Yax-Pac Yaxchilan zoomorphic
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art |
| Auteurs | Linda Schele, Mary Ellen Miller, Justin Kerr, Kimbell Art Museum |
| Photos de | Mary Ellen Miller, Justin Kerr |
| Édition | 2, illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Kimbell Art Museum, 1986 |
| Original provenant de | Université du Texas |
| Numérisé | 21 juil. 2008 |
| ISBN | 080761159X, 9780807611593 |
| Longueur | 335 pages |
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