Quiz 3
Art History 01 with Hajovsky at Southwestern University
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Title: Palma
Culture: Totonac
Date: 650-950
Culture: Totonac
Date: 650-950
- stone replica of the flat piece of wood used to protect the sternum
- literally "Palmas" because of the hands
Title: Battle Mural Building B
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
- depicts demise of the eagle warriors by the jaguar warriors
- probably a depiction of an actual battle with mythical proportion
Title: Palacio Quemado and Pyramid B
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- mostly meeting/admin place than a palace
- Tula-Toltec site plan
Title: Battle Mural Building B
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: 750
- depicts demise of the eagle warriors by the jaguar warriors
- probably a depiction of an actual battle with mythical proportion
Title: Palacio quemado and pyramid B
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: Early postclassic 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: Early postclassic 950-1250
- mostly admin/meeting place than a palace
- Tula-Toltec site plan
Title: North doorway mural Building A
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
- holds large conch
- in ritual dance position
- "pours" out a deity from the conch
Title: South Doorway mural Building A
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
- feathered serpent along the border
- individual wears eagle costume
- ceremonial bar is tilted, and a serpent emerges
Title: Ecstatic Figure, Remojadas
Culture: Veracruz?
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
Culture: Veracruz?
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
- hollow
- show cranial deformation
- made with mold
- could have ingested hallucinogenic mushroom
- shows filing of teeth
Title: Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent
Culture: Xochicalco
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
Culture: Xochicalco
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
- one talud and one tablero
- has flying cornice
- serpent undulates on half of the temple
- 2 serpents per side
- similar to TEO
- inside undulations: human figures sitting cross-legged
- wear large necklaces
- headdresses resemble obsidian serpent
- has natural cave with hole set up as observatory
Title: South doorway mural, Building A
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: Epiclassic ca 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: Epiclassic ca 750
- fully dressed as a jaguar
- standing not dancing
- ceremonial bar pours out bulb
- cacao/maize plant grows out of his navel
Title: Pyramid of the Niches, Tajin
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
- single apron staircase
- 7 levels (one is missing)
- niches all around
- flying cornice on each level of niches
- balistrade has step-fret motif
- 365 niches
Title: Stairway Mural
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: Epiclassic ca 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: Epiclassic ca 750
- patron of merchants
- holds trader's pack with quetzal feathers and other things
- corn/maize plants grow
- ears of corn is the head of the maize deity
- frog could be hallucinogenic or "huinal"
Title: Yoke
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
- U-shaped
- intricately carved to represent stylized tones covered with scrolls and human faces
- stone replica of belts worn by the ballplayers
Title: Relief Panel 5, South Ballcourt, Tajin
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
- shows the sacrifice of a ball player
- possibly on the losing team
- all figures wearing the yoke and palmas
- death emerges from a jar to take the sacrifice
Title: North doorway mural Building A
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
Culture: Cacaxtla
Date: ca 750
- stucco decoration very maya
- water band (shells and water)
- stands on jaguar serpent
- fully dressed as jaguar
- holds ceremonial bar as a rainstick
- eye becomes jaguar's eye
Title: Hacha
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
Culture: Totonac
Date: Epiclassic 650-950
- lined the ball courts
- feature heads of lords/kings with supernatural features
- traded/looted
Title: Ball Court
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- has relief panels all along it telling what happens during the ball game
Title: Hall of 1000 columns and Pyramid of the Warriors
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- true columns
- Called Hypostyle hall
- each column has carvings of warriors/prisoners
Title: Coatepantli
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- serpent wall
- intertwined serpent and skeleton
- seems as if serpent eats skeleton or skeleton emerges from serpent
- possible way of warding off undesirable people
Title: Hall of the Columns
Culture: Mitla Zapotec/Mixtec
Date: 11th-16th centuries
Culture: Mitla Zapotec/Mixtec
Date: 11th-16th centuries
Title: Ballcourt Pendant, Tomb 7
Culture: Monte Alban Mixtec
Date: 15th century
Culture: Monte Alban Mixtec
Date: 15th century
- cast bells attached to other bells
- representative of cardinal directions
- cosmogram
- earth monster: crocodile head split open
- butterflies above the sticks associated with teotihuacan
- Depiction of the sun with death head in center
- ball court at the top: sacred because above the Sun
Title: Coatepantli
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- serpent wall
- has crenelation at the top (represents cut shell)
- meander patterns frame center register
- intertwined serpent and skeleton
- seems as if serpent eats skeleton/skeleton emerges from serpent
- wards off undesirable people
Title: pg 56 Codex Borgia
Culture: Mixteca-Puebla
Date: ca 1500
Culture: Mixteca-Puebla
Date: ca 1500
- Divinatory codex
- used by priests to find the fate of a person when they are born on specific days
- 2 deities back to back (wind/death god)
- stand between days of div. calendar
- above an altar of upside down skull
- "gateway" into the underworld
Title: Palace of the Governor
Culture: Uxmal Maya
Date: 9-11 centuries
Culture: Uxmal Maya
Date: 9-11 centuries
- corbel vault breaks through cornice to separate/break monotony
- each detail carved separately then placed in the structure
Title: Hall of 1000 columns and pyramid of the warriors
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- Serpents provide the post and lintel doorway
- two rooms
- wall nodes are the noses of the witz monster
Title: Caracol
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya
Date: Early Post-Classic
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya
Date: Early Post-Classic
- round observatory
- three entrances
- double row of corbel vaulting
- probably tracked Venus
Title: pg 1-2 Codex Boturini (Tira Del Museo)
Culture: Nahua
Date: 1530
Culture: Nahua
Date: 1530
- house glyphs
- priest rows to Culhuacan on 1 flint
- leave Aztlan on 1 flint to set up shrine in Culhuacan for Huitzilopochtli
- 8 ethnic designations match a place and a leader
- Shows migration from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan
Title: Ball Court
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- warrior/ballplayer wears a yoke and a palma
- the other ballplayer no longer has his head
- no empty space-horror vacuai
- skull inside the cartouche= ball with the head of the ballplayer
Title: Pg 52 Codex Nuttall
Culture: Mixtec
Date: ca 1500
Culture: Mixtec
Date: ca 1500
- 8 deer dresses as jaguar warrior
- joined by priest (black skin)
- 8 deer faces 4 jaguar at a specific date
- holds incensario and a quail
- sacred bundle: had collectibles symbolic of ancient tradition
- 8 deer gets his nose pierced and acquires the name 8 deer jaguar claw
- legitimizes 8 deer rulership
Title: Nunnery Old Chichen Itza
Culture: Puuk Maya
Date: Late Classic/Early Post-classic
Culture: Puuk Maya
Date: Late Classic/Early Post-classic
- smaller in scale than the one at Uxmal
- first register: step-fret
- witz monster register above cornices
- separates first and second
- roof comb also has registers of step-fret and witz monster
Title: Chac Mool
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- sculpture used to submit small offerings
- reclines in unnatural position
- holds plate/bowl on chest
- head turns to look at person who submits offerings
- wears diadem
Title: Palace of the Governor
Culture: Uxmal Maya
Date: 9th-11th centuries
Culture: Uxmal Maya
Date: 9th-11th centuries
- tall cornices characteristic of Puuk Maya
- witz monsters on cornice/center
- 13 entranceways
Title: Hall of 1000 Columns and Pyramid of the Warriors
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- chac mool similar to the one at Tula
Title: Warrior Bench Palacio quemado
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- surrounds the whole palace
- shows human figures (warriors) in procession
- butterfly pectoral
- hold shield, spears, and atl-atl
- Feathered serpent above the warriors
Title: Pedestal Bowl with Hummingbird
Culture: Mixtec
Date: 15th century
Culture: Mixtec
Date: 15th century
- step-fret on pedestal and bottom of the bowl
- faces of the animals look up to the rim of the bowl
- hummingbird: symbol of the main Aztec Deity
Title: Palacio quemado and pyramid B
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- atlanteans
- butterfly pectoral on chest
- one hand holds atl-atl
- other hand holds incense bag
- loincloth in triangle shape
- back has shields/mirrors
- headdress: cotton band with feathers
- could have had inlays on eyes
- once painted
Title: Hall of the Columns
Culture: Mitla Zapotec/Mixtec
Date: 11-16th centuries
Culture: Mitla Zapotec/Mixtec
Date: 11-16th centuries
Title: Warrior Bench Palacio quemado
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
Culture: Tula Toltec
Date: 950-1250
- human figures in procession
- warriors
- butterfly pectorals
- hold shield, spears, atl-atl
- wide variety of carving style
- feathered serpent above human figures
Title: El Castillo
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: Early Post-Classic
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya-Toltec
Date: Early Post-Classic
- 9 levels
- stairways on all sides
- temple at the top is intact
- main stairway ends in giant serpent heads
- chacmool inside shrine in temple
Title: Caracol
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya
Date: Early Post-Classic
Culture: Chichen Itza Maya
Date: Early Post-Classic
- round observatory
- three entrances
- double row of corbel vaulting
- probably tracked Venus
About this deck
By: Yasmin Leon
Created: 2011-11-04
Size: 40 flashcards
Views: 36
Created: 2011-11-04
Size: 40 flashcards
Views: 36
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