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[https://artmuseum.williams.edu/news-item/the-seeds-of-divinity-an-exhibition-of-pre-columbian-art/ by News & Press 16/1/18] | [https://artmuseum.williams.edu/news-item/the-seeds-of-divinity-an-exhibition-of-pre-columbian-art/ by News & Press 16/1/18] | ||
Through art, music, dance, and ritual offerings of food, drink, incense, and even human blood, the people of Mesoamerica materialized gods in their daily lives. Pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico and Central America used the human body as a prism for understanding and depicting the supernatural. Comprised of 33 objects from five Mesoamerican civilizations—Maya, Teotihuacán, Nayarit, Zapotec, and Aztec—The Seeds of Divinity explores the spiritual and the sacred, plumbing the mutable line between humans, gods, and animals. The exhibition is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) from January 19 through August 26, 2018. | Through art, music, dance, and ritual offerings of food, drink, incense, and even human blood, the people of Mesoamerica materialized gods in their daily lives. Pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico and Central America used the human body as a prism for understanding and depicting the supernatural. Comprised of 33 objects from five Mesoamerican civilizations—Maya, Teotihuacán, Nayarit, Zapotec, and Aztec—The Seeds of Divinity explores the spiritual and the sacred, plumbing the mutable line between humans, gods, and animals. The exhibition is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) from January 19 through August 26, 2018. | ||
=====Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico, The Central Mexican Plateau-Aztec Art===== | |||
[https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/pre-columbian-art-of-mexico-the-central-mexican-plateau-aztec-art/ by The Artistic Adventure of Mankind] | |||
Tribe of humble and dark nomadic origins, the Aztec people included some ethnic groups of central Mexico who particularly spoke the Nahuatl language and who ruled large extensions of Mesoamerica between the XIV and the XV centuries. The word “Aztec” is used to refer to several ethnic groups that claim heritage from their mythic place of origin called Aztlan. In the Nahuatl language, “aztecatl” means “person from Aztlan”. | |||
