Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

known as the Baptistère de Saint Louis,but the association with the famous French king (see “Louis IX, the Saintly King,” Chapte ...

Last A Head 363 UMAYYAD SYRIA AND ABBASID IRAQ, 661–1258 ❚The Umayyads (r. 661–750) were the first Islamic dynasty and ruled fro ...

14-1Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc, Maya, lintel 24 of temple 23, Yaxchilán, Mexico, ca. 725 CE. Limestone, 3 7  2  6 –^12 . Br ...

T he origins of the indigenous peoples of the Americas are still uncertain. Sometime no later than 30,000 to 10,000 BCE, these f ...

These advanced civilizations went into rapid decline, however, in the 16th century when the Europeans introduced new diseases to ...

dential functions, and perhaps also as marketplaces. At regular inter- vals, the whole community convened for ritual observances ...

WEST MEXICOFar to the west of the tropical heartland of the Olmec are the Preclassic sites along Mexico’s Pacific coast. Scholar ...

foreground) is a century or more later, about 150–250 CE.The shapes of the monumental structures at Teotihuacan echo the sur- ro ...

QUETZALCOATLAt the south end of the Avenue of the Dead is the great quadrangle of the Citadel (FIG. 14-5,background). It en- clo ...

rulers and ranked nobility. How and why this happened are still unknown. Stupendous building projects signaled the change. Vast ...

372 Chapter 14 NATIVE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE 1300 A fter witnessing the native ball game of Mexico soon after their arrival ...

COPÁN Because Copán, on the western border of Honduras, has more hieroglyphic inscriptions and well-preserved carved monu- ments ...

vaulted chamber under the pyramid’s base. The towering structure consists of nine sharply inclining platforms, probably a refere ...

YAXCHILÁNElite women played an important role in Maya society, and some surviving artworks document their high status. The paint ...

EL TAJÍNThe major Classic Veracruz site is El Tajín, which was discovered in the dense rain forest of the Gulf of Mexico coast i ...

ern staircase of the pyramid. Because of the pyramid’s silhouette and the angle of the sun, the shadow takes the shape of a serp ...

The Caracol (FIG. 14-16) at Chichén Itzá establishes that the northern Maya were as inventive with architectural form as they we ...

Intermediate Area Between the highly developed civilizations of Mesoamerica and the South American Andes lies a region archaeolo ...

Goldsmiths in Peru, Ecuador, and southern Colombia pro- duced technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated work in g ...

The Old Temple of Chavín de Huántar, dated to the first millen- nium BCE, resembles some of the sacred complexes of the earliest ...