Nearly 100 Maya Masterpieces Are Now on View in New York City
At a current preview of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Life of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Artwork, people marveled quietly at substantial relief stoneworks and painted ceramic vessels excavated from lost metropolitan areas deserted all through the Traditional Maya collapse. The galleries have been softly lit if not totally dark — opening the flooring for the centuries-previous will work to converse for on their own.
The Met’s new show, structured in collaboration with Fort Worth’s Kimbell Artwork Museum, features dozens of large- and little-scale sculptures documenting the histories and existence levels of numerous Maya deities throughout the Vintage time period (250–900 CE). With both of those the all-natural decay and intentional destruction of almost all Maya texts, ancient Maya spirituality is deciphered and analyzed mainly by these valuable objects. Amid the vessels and ornaments in the exhibition are some inscribed or painted with glyphs and representational