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Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small kingdoms in what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Many regional artistic traditions existed side by side, usually coinciding with the changing boundaries of Maya polities.
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 Codex Style, as the name already clarifies, has a strong resemblance to the surviving Postclassic Maya codices. Comparing the scenes painted in the corpus of codex style vases, artistic devices such as the contrast of a black line on a white (or cream) background with the addition of a hieroglyphic caption illustrating the iconography recalled the uses of color and space in the Dresden ...
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 ...
Ongoing archaeological investigations have revealed that ancient Maya Ucanal was a 10-square-mile metropolis with a three-square-mile monumental urban core. So far archaeologists have mapped over ...
Ancient Maya graffiti are a little-studied area of folk art of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. [1] Graffiti were incised into the stucco of interior walls, floors, and benches, in a wide variety of buildings, including pyramid-temples , residences, and storerooms.
Cobá took its place in Maya culture no earlier than 100 B.C., and enjoyed a continuous life as a city until about 1,200 A.D. Known as the “city of chopped water,” the site may have had up to ...