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Art History 01 with Hajovsky at Southwestern University

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Name: Auto Sacrifice Scene, Structure 1, west wall
Culture: San Bartolo, Guatemala
Date: Late Pre-Classic

auto sacrifice scene

not necessarily intended to lose life; just to present blood

one of the Hero twins

known as a royal rite of passage

Name: Pyramid E-VII Sub (Reconstruction drawing)
Culture: Uaxactun
Date: Late Pre-Classic

substructure of a larger architectural place
masks on balistrades

Sun Gods, serpents, jaguar god of the underworld (night sun)

Name: Stela 11
Culture: Kaminaljuyu
Date: Late Pre-Classic

almost direct match to stela 4
holds weapon and torch
wears a mask
in profile (has incense burners)
indicates person dressed as the principle bird deity

Name: Stela 4
Culture: Izapa
Date: Late Pre-Classic

points to the hero twin story in the popul vuh

One twin is defeating the Principal Bird Deity (PBD)

Name: Stela 1 and Altar 1
Culture: Izapa
Date: Late Pre-Classic

for each stela there is an altar (toad-like shape)
top of the stela is a mouth representing Sky
god(deity) walking on water

feet are crocodile heads
he's fishing
has cayman-like features

Name: Monte Alban Building J
Culture: Zapotec
Date: Late Pre-Classic

only building out of alignment with the other buildings
points to star Capella
an observatory for the Zapotec

Name: "Danzantes" Monte Alban
Culture: Zapotec Culture
Date: Late Pre-Classic

male victims with genital mutilation
symbol of domination
somewhat Olmec figures
low relief carving

Name: Figurine
Culture: Las Bocas
Date: Early/Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Ceramic

shaman has baby body with finger in hand

back is incised using a roller stamp

finger in mouth same as babies
shows reverting to former state of life

Name: Masked Ruler Cave wall Painting
Culture:Oxtotitlan
Date:Early Pre-Classic

person sitting on jaguar mask

similar to altar4

wears feathered costume
gesture as if flying

also as rulership

Name: Monument 9
Culture: Chalcatzingo
Date: 600-400 BC

frontal representation of monument 1
marked with plants
eyes with x's
receding space because of bevels on the mouth

Name: Monument 1
Culture: Chalcatzingo
Date:600-400 BC

female sitting inside holding ceremonial bar
cave has zoomorphic features

breathing, mouth, eye

female wears ceremonial headdress
rain & clouds

Name: Offering 4
Culture: La Venta
Date: Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Greenstone Celts and figurines

16 figurines

15 jadite, 1 marble

6 celts
15 are probably attempting to take him hostage
celts inscribed

resemble tomb of basalt columns

Name: Mosaic Pavement
Culture: La Venta
Date:Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Serpentine Blocks

clay buried to fill in mosaic underground
abstract
looks like a mask
serpentine: positive space
empty (filled with colored clay): negative space

Name: Figurine with pyrite mirror, Tomb of the Basalt Columns
Culture: La Venta
Date: Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Jade with cinnabar

shaman figurine because of the mirror

mirror casts image to give "supernatural presence"

elongated head
cinnabar after figure used

Name: Altar 5
Culture: La Venta
Date: Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Basalt

individuals holding were-jaguar babies
adults fully dressed; oblong head
babies screaming/kicking
man in center leans forward

wears emblem on head that resembles his Olmec Features

Name: Altar 4
Culture: La Venta
Date: Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Basalt

man emerging from cave (human origin)
carvings at mouth of cave
4 plant-like items in intercardinal directions
bound individual

ropes around the "cave" held by someone else

Name: Colossal Head 8
Culture: San Lorenzo
Date: Early Pre-Classic
Material: Basalt

fleshy features
cross-eyed
believed to be a ruler of san lorenzo
intentionally buried or systematically destroyed

Name: Kunz Axe
Culture: Olmec
Date: Pre-Classic
Material: Jade

Head and body have same proportions
earliest associated w/Olmec
almost symmetric
holds something
related to were-jaguar
cross-eyed
small in size
wide nose
turned up lip

interlocking fangs

Name: Las Limas Figure
Date:Middle Pre-Classic
Material: Serpentine

Anthropomorphic figure presents were-jaguar baby
incised designs tattoos on "priest"

depict how Olmec view the universe

4 creatures=4 corners of the world
were jaguar baby is axis mundi

Name: Leiden Plaque
Culture:
Date: Early Classic (September 17, 320 date inscribed)

incised date and narrative
on the back: a ruler wearing costume with assembled masks to symbolize rulership
shows ruler in a dominant position

Name: La Mojarra, Stela 1, Long Count Dates 143 and 156 AD
Culture: Maya?
Date: Late Pre-Classic

has dates and hieroglyphic
guy is a ruler and is subject of the narrative
beak-like object on the headdress
assembled mask with 3 plaques hanging
low relief carving

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