With approximately 300 artworks including many Mexican national treasures, this exhibition explores the magnificent and varied forms of artistic expression developed by the Maya, with a focus on a fundamental aspect of pre-Hispanic art: the body. |
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The Maya - Language of Beauty |
12 April – 7 August 2016
Martin-Gropius-Bau | Berlin, Germany |
With approximately 300 artworks including many Mexican national treasures, this exhibition explores the magnificent and varied forms of artistic expression developed by the Maya, with a focus on a fundamental aspect of pre-Hispanic art: the body. |
Flourishing on the Yucatán Peninsula between 500 B.C. and 1500 A.D., the Maya achieved a degree of artistic sophistication—in reliefs, busts, and clay and stone figurines—that placed them far ahead of all other contemporary cultures on their continent. |
Mayan buildings and works of art provide a splendid window into the everyday existence of this highly advanced civilization, shedding light on its literature, astronomy, music and dances. These reveal a culture dominated by an idealized view of humanity and its relationship with the gods, notions echoed in the Mayan ideal of beauty and conception of mankind’s place in the cosmos. |
The Maya – Language of Beauty is part of a year of culture organized jointly by the German and Mexican governments. |
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Young man with simple headdress. Late Classical, 600–900 A.D. Jaina Insel, Campeche Clay © INAH. Museo Regional de Antropología, Carlos Pellicer Cámara. Villahermosa, Tabasco. |
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