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José Campeche y Jordán [note 1] (December 23, 1751 – November 7, 1809), is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenced the landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème.
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 blindfolded Christ in Matthias Grünewald's Mocking of Christ, c. 1503, was an influence on the presentation of the central figure in Bacon's Three Studies. [15] The art critic Hugh Davies has suggested that of the three figures, that on the left most closely resembles a human form, and that it might represent a mourner at the cross. [16]
Calakmul is located in Campeche state in southeastern Mexico, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of the border with Guatemala and 38 kilometres (24 mi) north of the ruins of El Mirador. [5] The ruins of El Tintal are 68 kilometres (42 mi) to the southwest of Calakmul and were linked to both El Mirador and Calakmul itself by causeway. [6]
A polyptych (/ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ p t ɪ k / POL-ip-tik; Greek: poly-"many" and ptychē "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Some definitions restrict "polyptych" to works with more than three sections: [ 1 ] a diptych is a two-part work of art; a triptych is a three-part work; a tetraptych or ...
Pinturas Canyon, view from the caves. Cueva de las Manos refers to both the main site of the cave and the surrounding complex of rock art sites that includes it. [1] The cave lies at the base of a stepped cliff in the Pinturas River Canyon, in the upper part of the Deseado River basin, [2] [3] [4] in an isolated part of Patagonia. [5]
The lower part is the ground, and the pool in the middle part meets the ground with a high platform composed of bricks carved with flowers. There are peacocks, Kalaviṅka (Chinese: 共命鸟), parrots and cranes on the stage. In front of the stage, there are two dancing dancers standing on a round carpet, and a group of dancers on the left and ...
The painting is set on a sea shore and shows in the foreground an aged man with his back turned to the viewer, walking towards two adults and two children on a hilltop overlooking a harbour. [1] The figures are echoed by five ships shown in the harbour, each at a different distance from the shore, an allegorical reference to the different ...