2016年4月1日 · In the first millennium B.C., Maya artists began to sculpt in stone, stucco, wood, bone, shell, and fired clay. During the Classic Period (ca. 250–900), kings and queens of powerful city-states, such as Tikal, Calakmul, Palenque, and Copán, commissioned artworks to cover their royal court buildings and their regal bodies.

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.

Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain. [2]

2022年8月17日 · Mayan Statues. The Maya were talented sculptors, especially given their limited and primitive sculpting tools. It is believed that they first began sculpting in the 1st millennium BCE. Mayan statues were created for several decorative, religious, and even practical reasons.

2021年9月2日 · Artists in first-millennium Maya royal courts created enduring, life-sized portraits of their patrons on freestanding stone monuments known as stelae. Such majestic images of powerful kings and queens who ruled over city-states in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador also contain hieroglyphic texts. [ 1 ]

This hand-modeled ceramic sculpture depicts the head and torso of a youthful Maize God emerging from the center of a ripe ear of corn. The young Maize God has idealized facial features and elongated head. He wears a fringed headdress, perhaps of feathers, that has flattened and turned back fringes at the top-center.

A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian 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.

2022年12月12日 · From small Mayan statues to monumental Mayan carvings, the world of sculpture for the Maya was a playground. Below, you will find a few intriguing sculptures from ancient Maya that will enlighten and revitalize your interest in the medium.

Sculpture of the Maya Maize God, a youth wearing a headdress in the form of a stylized ear of corn and hair in the form of the silk of the cob. The head is disproportionately large compared to the narrow shoulders and slender torso. The sculpture was probably carved from two different blocks of limestone, one for the head and another for the torso.

2023年1月12日 · Mayan statues rarely didn’t have a greater spiritual representation. This one represents the Mayan god of rain called Chac and is thought to be what remains of a once complete statue. The eyes of the statue are enlarged, and the brows and orbitals are marked with various dots and indentations.