ART 303 - Mesoamerican Art History - MIDTERM (Art ID)

Votive Adze

Formative Period, circa B.C. 1200-500

This large jade sculpture is in the form of an axe or adze, though it was most certainly used for ceremonial purposes. The adze takes on the form of a were-jaguar, or were-jaguar baby, characterize snarling mouth with fangs and feline nose. Were-j

Discovery Site: Mexico and Central America

Medium: Stone

Repository: American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York,Donor: Kunz, George F.,

Wrestler(ball player)

Culture: Olmec
Image View Description: figure from Minatitlan, Veracruz
Date: ca. 12th-6th century B.C.E.
Location: Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City

Colossal Head #1 from La Venta

1000-800B.C

Culture: Olmec
Medium: basalt

Seated Figure

12th–9th century BCE

Culture: Olmec
Work Type: Ceramics-Sculpture
Location: Mexico, Mesoamerica
Medium: Ceramic, pigment

Las Limas Figure, Monument I

c.800 B.C

Culture: Olmec
Medium: greenstone

Ceremonial Ballgame Yoke

Creator: Classic Veracruz

Work Type: Ceremonial Objects
Style/Period: Late Classic
Date: A.D. 600-900
Medium: Granite with traces of red pigment

Altar #4 at La Venta

Work Type: Sculpture
Date: Classic Period; circa 200 CE
Description: Temple platform of god Tlaloc (?)
Location: Mexico; Teotihuaca

Dog with mask

Work Type: sculpture
Style/Period: Pre-Columbian
Date: 300 BCE - 300 CE
Description: proto classic, from Colima
Medium: terracotta

Ceremonial ball game

Culture: Nayarit, Pre-Columbian

Subjects: Pre-Columbian,Sculpture Nayarit Special
Societal Groups

Mask

Culture: Teotihuacan
Work Type: mask
Date: ca. 450
Medium: stone, turquoise, and shell

North Acropolis - Arial View

Location: TIKAL, Guatemala

Young Maize God

715 C.E.

Culture: Maya
Site: Copan
Location: Honduras

Subject: Ceramic figural sculpture
Medium: Limestone,

Palace and Temple of Inscriptions

Location: PALENQUE, Mexico

Metropolican Vase: cylindrical vessel

Pre-Columbian

Iconography--Maya
Painting--Maya
Rollouts--Maya
Vessels--Maya

Pyramid of the Sun: general view taken from the Pyramid of the Moon

c.100

Pre-Columbian

Pyramids (tombs)

Teotihuacan

Pyramid of Quetzacoatl

Culture: Pre-Columbian
Location: Teotihuacan

Work Type: Sculpture
Date: Classic Period; Circa 200 CE
Description: Staircase; decorated façade; left: serpent heads surrounded by petals, image of god Tlaloc

Tepantitla, Portico 11, Tetila, Great Godess,

650-750

Teotihuacan

Medium: fresco mural painting

Great Goddess holding a flowering plant

650-750

Teotihuacan

Medium: fresco mural painting

Basin

Date: 400-750

Culture: North American; Central American; Mesoamerican; Teotihuacán

Work Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects,Ceramic
Style/Period: Mexico, Teotihuacan
Medium: earthenware with fresco

This is one of the largest and most beautiful fresco-decorated vessels surviving from Teotihuacan. The vessel was constructed of clay and allowed to partially dry before the interior and underside were burnished. The exterior walls were left unpolished to