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[https://www.doaks.org/research/library-archives/rare-book-collection/pre-columbian-art-and-archaeology] | [https://www.doaks.org/research/library-archives/rare-book-collection/pre-columbian-art-and-archaeology] | ||
Remnants of pre-contact civilizations of Mesoamerica and greater Central America—cities and ritual sites lost in the tropical jungle—lured eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers and archeologists. Their descriptions of places that they had explored often included drawings, prints, and photographs, revealing how these Pre-Columbian monuments were perceived and recorded by their first visitors and scholars. Although one of the earliest of these accounts, Antonio del Río’s discovery of Palenque in 1787, was published only in 1822 in an English translation (with important additions by Paul-Félix Cabrera), its influence was comparable to that of Alexander von Humboldt’s Vues des cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique (1810), which combined the author’s interests in art, natural history, and material culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. | Remnants of pre-contact civilizations of Mesoamerica and greater Central America—cities and ritual sites lost in the tropical jungle—lured eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers and archeologists. Their descriptions of places that they had explored often included drawings, prints, and photographs, revealing how these Pre-Columbian monuments were perceived and recorded by their first visitors and scholars. Although one of the earliest of these accounts, Antonio del Río’s discovery of Palenque in 1787, was published only in 1822 in an English translation (with important additions by Paul-Félix Cabrera), its influence was comparable to that of Alexander von Humboldt’s Vues des cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique (1810), which combined the author’s interests in art, natural history, and material culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. | ||
=====Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico, The Central Mexican Plateau-Teotihuacan===== | |||
[https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/pre-columbian-art-of-mexico-the-central-mexican-plateau-teotihuacan/ by The Artistic Adventure of Mankind] | |||
To the northeast of the valley of Mexico rises Teotihuacan, the great Mesoamerican ceremonial center in which between the II century BC and the II century AD were erected the great pyramids of the Sun and the Moon whose majestic contours harmonize with the silhouette of the surrounding mountains. Around these pyramids, a great sacred city developed whose splendor attracted pilgrims from all parts of Mesoamerica for several centuries. | |||
