Blood of Kings: Dynasty And Ritual In Maya ArtWW Norton, 1986 - 335 pages "[A] work as remarkable for its text as for the photographs and drawings that illustrate it."—Octavio Paz, The New York Review of Books A comprehensive guide to the Maya which reveals kingship rites, ritual warfare, with a vast array of color plates and drawings. |
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... carved from jade or wood or were mosaics assembled from thin pieces of jade ( Pl . 18 ) . Imagery included important gods and symbols of rulership— principally the jaguar , the Jester God , the Sun God and ahau in its anthropomorphic ...
... carved from jade or wood or were mosaics assembled from thin pieces of jade ( Pl . 18 ) . Imagery included important gods and symbols of rulership— principally the jaguar , the Jester God , the Sun God and ahau in its anthropomorphic ...
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... Carved jade 14 x 14 cm The Trustees of The British Museum , London This mottled green jade plaque was apparently transported to Teotihuacan from the Maya area as a prestige item . It appears to have been broken and repolished at least ...
... Carved jade 14 x 14 cm The Trustees of The British Museum , London This mottled green jade plaque was apparently transported to Teotihuacan from the Maya area as a prestige item . It appears to have been broken and repolished at least ...
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... carved for two hundred years . In these , a standing ruler was depicted frontally , his face worked in high , nearly three - dimensional , relief , while one or two captives , some- times carved at a slightly smaller scale , knelt at ...
... carved for two hundred years . In these , a standing ruler was depicted frontally , his face worked in high , nearly three - dimensional , relief , while one or two captives , some- times carved at a slightly smaller scale , knelt at ...
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 Aucun aperçu disponible - 1986 |
Blood of Kings: Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art Linda Schele,Mary Ellen Miller Aucun aperçu disponible - 2000 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
accession ahau appears architectural Art Museum ball ballcourt ballgame ballplayers belt Bird Jaguar 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 dressed earflare Early Classic period event FIGURE figurine front 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 Lowland 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 sculpture Seibal shell Shield Jaguar Stela stone Structure supernatural symbols Tikal Tlaloc Uaxactun Underworld Venus Vision Serpent warrior water-lily wears World Tree worn Xibalba Yax-Pac Yaxchilan zoomorphic