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    The document summarizes Pre-Columbian art from the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca civilizations prior to European contact in the Americas. It describes the Aztec and Inca empires and their advances in agriculture, architecture, and art including sculptures, paintings, and metalwork featuring glyphs, figures, and religious symbols. Mayan art is characterized by rock art, sculptures, and murals while the Inca valued gold and produced gold sculptures. Both empires created impressive architecture like pyramid temples.

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    The Pre-Columbian Art

    (Aztec Mayan Inca)


    The term "Pre-Columbian art" refers to the
    architecture, art and crafts of the native people of
    North, Central, and South America, and the islands of
    the Caribbean (c.13,000 BCE - 1500 CE) up to the time
    period marked by the arrival of Christopher Columbus
    in the Americas.
    HISTORY

    There were two empires, the Aztecs of Mesoamerica and


    the Incas of Peru. Both were agriculturally settled and
    competent, and supported art and architecture. The Mayan
    culture of Mesoamerica made advances in mathematics and
    astronomy, but it was overrun by Aztecs from the north in the
    eleventh and twelfth centuries, who in turn were conquered by
    the Spanish in 1519. The conquest of Peru followed in 1532.
    MAYAN ART

    Mayan art is mainly characterized by petroglyphs, a variety of rock art, some


    stone sculpture and wood-carving, as well as mural paintings (city of
    Bonampak c.750 CE).

    From ca. 200–900 AD the dominant culture was the Maya. The Maya had
    advanced astronomy and their own forms of hieroglyphic writing. Mayan art
    utilized glyphs and stylized figures decorate architecture such as the pyramid
    temple of Chichén Itzá.
    Petroglyphs found in Mayan
    Ruins of Guatemala

    Photo from Pinterest

    Pyramid temple of
    CHICHÉN ITZÁ.
    (Photo from Britannica)
    AZTEC ART

    The Aztec culture of central and southern Mexico produced a


    variety of visual art, including: brighly coloured fresco painting,
    masks, ceremonial costumes, bracelets and necklaces, as well as a
    range of clay, stone and wood sculpture. Aztec mosaic art was
    frequently used to decorate masks as well as architecture.
    Aztec Calendar

    IXMIQUILPAN
    FRESCO

    Photo from Britannica

    Photo from Pinterest


    PYRAMID OF THE MOON FROM THE
    AVENUE OF THE DEAD
    Photo from uncoverhistory.com

    PYRAMID OF THE SUN IN TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO


    Photo from ncpedia.org
    INCA ART

    In South America, at the time of the Spanish conquest the Inca Empire was
    the largest and wealthiest empire as depicted in their art. The Inca valued gold
    among all other metals, and equated it with the sun god Inti. Some Inca
    buildings in the capital of Cusco were literally covered in gold, and most
    contained many gold and silver sculptures. It is a cultural tragedy that most
    Inca sculpture was melted down by the invading Spanish.
    MYTH OF EL DORADO

    Here, goldwork was very highly developed, both in terms of


    technical proficiency and artistic originality.
    Gold, both in its pure state and as a copper alloy (tumbaga), was a
    prominent ingredient of its art.
    References

    http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/pre-columbian.htm
    https://www.christies.com/features/Collecting-guide-Pre-Columbian-Art-8949-1.aspx
    https://www.ncpedia.org/media/pyramid-sun-teotihuacan
    htthttps://uncoveredhistory.com/mexico/teotihuacan/teotihuacan-pyramid-of-the-
    moon/
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/archaeology/el-dorado/
    http://www.all-art.org/history346.html
    https://www.ancientsculpturegallery.com/civilization/aztec-mayan-inca.html
    https://www.theartist.me/art-movement/pre-columbian-art/
    https://www.artsy.net/gene/pre-columbian-art

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