Art of the Americas Summary RESPONSE QUESTION 13

Art of the Americas Summary • RESPONSE QUESTION 1/3 (Slide 8): Compare these two figures in a few sentences. • RESPONSE QUESTION 2/3 (Slide 21): Describe this figure. Bullet points are fine. • RESPONSE QUESTION 3/3 (Slide 27): Please submit any questions you have.

Midterm Review Stonehenge Wiltshire, England Neolithic Era Basilica of Saint-Denis Ambulatory St. Denis, France Choir completed 1144

Midterm Review Mankaure and His Queen 2548 -2530 BCE Egypt Doryphoros Polykleitos Marble after a Bronze original 1 st C BCE (c. 440 CE

Mesoamerica

Olmec

Olmec Heartland

The Great Pyramid La Venta c. 400 BCE Mostly Clay

La Venta Monument 1 7. 9 feet tall Basalt 24 tons San Lorenzo Monument 4 5. 8 feet tall Basalt 6 tons

La Venta Monument 4

Offering #4 La Venta c. 900 -400 BCE Jadeite and granite

Offering #4

Seated Pottery Figure 1200 -400 BCE “Baby-Face”

Aztec Empire

Historia Toteca-Chichimeca 16 th Century Aztlan

Mexican Flag

Ruins of the Templo Mayor 1375 -1520 Tenochtitlan

Templo Mayor Model of the sacred precinct in Tenochtitlan

Chacmool Tlaloc Temple Platform Templo Mayor Tenochtitlan 1325 -1519

Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli

The Coyolxauhqui Stone c. 1500 Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan

Coyolxauhqui Stone reconstruction, with possible original colors c. 1500 Templo Mayor Tenochtitlan

Aztec Sun Stone c. 1502 -1521 associated with Moctezuma II

Tonatiuh

Aztec Sun Stone c. 1502 -1521 associated with Moctezuma II

Codex Mendoza c. 1541 -1542 Pigment on Paper

Codex Mendoza c. 1541 -1542 Pigment on Paper

Codex Mendoza Detail