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Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting. 1995. ISBN 978-0-292-75552-9; Stone, Andrea, and Marc Zender, Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture. Thames and Hudson 2011. Stuart, David, and George Stuart, Palenque, Eternal City of the Maya. Thames and Hudson 2008. Tate, Carolyn E.,
The Chiik Naab murals are a group of ancient Maya mural paintings located in a substructure of building 1 at the great acropolis of Chiik Naab in the Maya city of Calakmul in southern Campeche, Mexico. The paintings show various scenes of the daily life in the Maya city that includes the consumption of food and drink such as tamales and atole ...
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.
Graffiti varies widely in quality, from crude drawings described variously as childlike or cartoonish, to skillfully executed renderings of human figures and animals that are of comparable quality to formal Classic Maya art. [8] Most examples fall somewhere between the two in terms of quality. [9]
This category contains articles relating to aspects of artistic and aesthetic expression documented for the historical Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. "Art" is inclusive of visual arts, decorative motifs and associated iconographies, that may be applied in any medium (sculpture, stonework, murals, textiles, etc) as well as performance arts such as music and dance.
The Lost Cities of the Mayas: the Life, Art and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood. Shrewsbury: Swan Hill. ISBN 1-84037-042-4. OCLC 40926474. Carlsen, William (2016). Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0062407399. Coe, Michael D. (1992). Breaking the Maya Code ...
While the oldest wooden artifacts are as much as 10,000 years old, carved and painted wooden objects are known only from the past 2,000 years. Animal effigies and face masks have been found at a number of sites in Florida. Animal effigies dating to between 200 and 600 were found in a mortuary pond at Fort Center, on the west side of Lake ...
But nearly all have been destroyed through either environmental or human causes. [11] Naj Tunich cave is also associated with many artifacts relating to possible ritual activity. Maya artifacts at Naj Tunich include offerings of ceramics, lithics, bowls, precious minerals, copal incense, and human sacrifices. [12] [13]