enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: mayan paintings and drawings of animals

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ancient Maya art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Maya_art

    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.,

  3. Chiik Naab murals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiik_Naab_murals

    While the vast majority of Maya art and works illustrate political or religious themes highlighting the image of god or rulers, the Chiik Naab murals are entirely social scenes, a subject that is rarely represented, showing the image of a Maya market which has contributed to understanding the cultural traditions and daily lifestyle of the pre ...

  4. Dogs in Mesoamerica - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_Mesoamerica

    In Maya art, dogs are represented in various roles and media. They have been depicted in scenes such as those from the Popol Vuh or burial processions. The Maya Vase Database exhibits a great example of a possible funeral procession on a painted vase, K5534. The dog standing below the head noble's palanquin may be guiding its owner to Xibalba.

  5. Museo Popol Vuh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Popol_Vuh

    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.

  6. Ancient Maya graffiti - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Maya_graffiti

    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]

  7. Category:Maya art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Maya_art

    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.

  8. Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_Mesoamerican...

    Dogs appear in underworld scenes painted on Maya pottery dating to the Classic Period and even earlier than this, in the Preclassic, the people of Chupícuaro buried dogs with the dead. [2] In the great Classic Period metropolis of Teotihuacan , 14 human bodies were deposited in a cave, most of them children, together with the bodies of three ...

  9. Jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguars_in_Mesoamerican...

    The Maya, whose territory spanned the Yucatán Peninsula all the way to the Pacific coast of Guatemala, was a literate society who left documentation of their lives (mostly the lives of the aristocracy) and belief system in the form of books and bas-relief sculpture on temples, stelae, and pottery. Often depicted on these artifacts are the gods ...

  1. Ads

    related to: mayan paintings and drawings of animals