↗Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (900-200 BCE) · c. 500–200 BCE
Plaque
Creator not recorded
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Guatemala or Mexico, Usumacinta River region, Maya style · c. 795
Panel with Royal Woman
Creator not recorded by the museum
- Date
- c. 795
- Medium
- limestone
- Dimensions
- Overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
- Country / context
- Guatemala or Mexico, Usumacinta River region, Maya style
- Movement / tradition
- Central and South American arts
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- Central and South American arts ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman’s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a god of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and costume, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795.
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↗Peru, North Coast, Moche style · 200–550 CE
Portrait Head Vessel
Creator not recorded
↗Peru, North Coast, Moche style · c. 200–550 CE
Portrait Head Vessel
Creator not recorded
↗Mesoamerica, Guatemala, Department of the Petén, El Perú (also known as Waka'), Maya (250-900), Classic period (200-1000) · 692
Front Face of a Stela (Free-standing Stone with Relief)
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