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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... personification heads personification head Mat in plain and personified forms humans and zoomorphs and drilling holes in pottery . Much of the deliberate damage done to the faces of kingly portraits and other sculpture was the result of ...
... personification heads personification head Mat in plain and personified forms humans and zoomorphs and drilling holes in pottery . Much of the deliberate damage done to the faces of kingly portraits and other sculpture was the result of ...
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... personified form of flint , how- ever , have skeletal features and circular indentations in the contour , in imitation of the edge of chipped eccentric flints ( Fig . 23d ) ; these distinguish personified flints from the Cauac Monster ...
... personified form of flint , how- ever , have skeletal features and circular indentations in the contour , in imitation of the edge of chipped eccentric flints ( Fig . 23d ) ; these distinguish personified flints from the Cauac Monster ...
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... personified Imix - Water - lily glyph is attached to his elbow ; the Quadripartite Monster hangs from his rump , head down and fac- ing outward . A personified blood stream emerges from the stingray spine in the center of its kin - bowl ...
... personified Imix - Water - lily glyph is attached to his elbow ; the Quadripartite Monster hangs from his rump , head down and fac- ing outward . A personified blood stream emerges from the stingray spine in the center of its kin - bowl ...
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