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Templo Mayor; Height: 60m/197ft
The gods: Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc; Completed: 1497
Materials: Built of stone and covered with stucco and polychrome paint
Chacmool (also spelled chac-mool) is the term used to refer to a particular form of preColumbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees
from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.
Offerings at the Templo Mayor
Over a hundred ritual caches or deposits
containing thousands of objects have been
found associated with the Templo Mayor.
Some offerings contained items related to
water, like coral, shells, crocodile skeletons,
and vessels depicting Tlaloc. Other deposits
related to warfare and sacrifice, containing
items like human skull masks with obsidian
blade tongues and noses and sacrificial knives.
Many of these offerings contain objects from
faraway places—likely places from which the
Mexica collected tribute. Some offerings
demonstrate the Mexica’s awareness of the
historical and cultural traditions in
Mesoamerica. For instance, they buried an
Olmec mask made of jadeite, as well as others
from Teotihuacan (a city northeast of modernday Mexico City known for its huge
monuments and dating roughly from the 1st
century until the 7th century C.E.). The Olmec
mask was made over a thousand years prior to
the Mexica, and its burial in Templo Mayor
suggests that the Mexica found it precious and
perhaps historically significant.
Aztec Calendar
Stone, 1479
Western Han painting on silk was found draped
over the coffin in the grave of Lady Dai (c. 168
BC) at Mawangdui near Changsha in Hunan
province.
Longmen Caves together with Mogao Caves near Dunhuang and Yungang Caves
near Datong, are the three great ancient rock sculpture sites in China.
There are 2300 caves and niches, more than 2800 pieces of inscriptions, about 80
Buddhist pagodas and 110,000 Buddhist statues, most on the west side. About 60% of
all construction dates from the Tang dynasty.
Gold and Jade Crown, Three
Kingdoms Period, Silla
Kingodm, Korea, 5th -6th C,
metal work
The David Vases, Yuan
Dynasty, 1351 CE China,
white porcelain and cobaltblue underglaze
Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417-1475)
Second half of 15th century
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; 65
3/4 x 43 1/8 in.
The primary function of portraits of
meritorious subjects was to celebrate the
contributions to the state that they had
made and to enhance the Confucian value
of loyalty to the king.
Even Disney animators know their art
history……
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Chairman Mao en Route
to Anyuan – based on a painting
by Liu Chunhua
Artist / Origin
Chinese School
Region: East Asia
Date
1969 CE
Material
Color lithograph
Medium: Prints,
Drawings, and
Photography
Dimensions
H: 29 ½ in. (75
cm.), W: 21 3/5
in. (55 cm.)
Location
Private Collection
Credit
© The Chambers
Gallery,
London/Bridgem
an Art Library
Memory Board (Lukasa), 19th–20th century
Democratic Republic of Congo; Luba
Wood; L. 21 9/16 in. (54.77 cm)
Gift of the Britt Family Collection, 1977
(1977.467.3)