HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Grolier Codex, Dresden Codex, Paris Codex
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History of art 88 lecture 6 classic mayan art: calendars, kings, queens, and royal. Constitutes, lowlands, tropical rainforests, mountainous regions, highlands. 200-900ce: formal and stylistic parallels with western art as well as classical. Relatively independent in culture from neighboring civilizations. Art & competition in the maya royal courts. Mayan cylinder vase: painted in the round, scene of a royal court: seated figures painting sculpting, and writing in a book (royal arts of the court) 2nd cylinder vase: also depicts figures painting masks and writing in books, jaguar skin: indicative of luxury and wealth. Maya codices: dresden codex, paris codex, madrid codex, grolier codex (all made after 1100ce, made of fig bark paper coated with white stucco, all are ritual almanacs/astrological charts dedicated to venus. Yaxchilan (mexico) line drawing in stone, lintel 8, 775ce: representative of authority over captives, indicated by text accompaniment, date derived from top-left glyphs, top-right glyph: [insert royal name], holy lord of yaxchilan.
