Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art Pillsbury Joanne
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art Pillsbury Joanne This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning…
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Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art Pillsbury Joanne
This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic periodFocusing on the period between A.D. The authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization, represented here from the monumental to the miniature through more than 140 works in jade, stone, and clay. 250 and 900, Lives of the Gods reveals that ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities.
Thematic chapters supported by new scholarship on recent archaeological discoveries detail the different types of gods and their domains, the role of the divine in the lives of the ancient Maya, and the continuation of these traditions from the
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