De Young Museum Visit and Teotihuacan Mural Gallery In this response paper I seek to analyze the ethical‚ legal‚ and museological issues that surround the Teotihuacan Mural Gallery from the de Young Museum. The gallery is inside the Art of Americas section of the museum on the ground floor. A simple room‚ the Teotihuacan Mural Gallery is a dim lit space dim lit space that has large mural fragments along the walls‚ a bench in the center of the room‚ and a display stand featuring small fragment
Premium UNESCO Art Maya civilization
Murals of the City of the (Un)Known This whole paper started with an amazing trip to the Denver Art Museum. The Teotihuacan section immediately caught my attention. This is where I discovered the “Mural of Xochipilla”. Had I known in the beginning how mysterious this piece of art was I would have moved on to another topic for this research paper. Many hours were spent trying to find information on the “Mural of Xochipilla” which yielded no information at all. Not even the museum could reveal
Premium Mural Fresco Murals
“Teotihuacan‚ located in the Basin of Central Mexico‚ was the largest‚ most influential‚ and certainly most revered city in the history of the New World‚ and it flourished in Mesoamerica’s Golden Age‚ the Classic Period of the first millennium CE.” ("Teotihuacan."). 125‚000-150‚000 inhabitants occupied Teotihuacan at the height of its power around 450 C.E.‚ and it was one of the largest ancient urban centers during its time. Teotihuacan is known for its modern city layout (grid pattern) that contains
Premium Mesoamerica Aztec City
Teotihuacán was an ancient Mesoamerican city in Mexico. Teotihuacán gets its name from the Aztecs meaning “place for the Gods.” The ancient city thrived around 300-550 CE‚ but it began its era around 150 BCE and ended it in 600 CE spanning over 700 years. The city itself is about 30 miles from current day Mexico City. The city itself is over 20 square kilometers with a gridded layout and a walled exterior. The Avenue of the Dead outlines the length of the city‚ starting at the crop fields and pointing
Premium Aztec Mexico Mexico City
Pyramid of the Sun Second largest structure in Mesoamerica 3rd largest pyramid in the world Pyramid of the Moon Exhibits the talud-tablero architectural structure that is usually seen in Teotihuacan culture Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl Sacred to the feathered serpent God‚ known as Quetzalcoatl Shows some of the earliest representations of the Feathered Serpent‚ which is seen throughout Mesoamerica in different cultures Palace of the Jaguars -One of the most meaningful
Premium Quetzalcoatl Aztec Moon
TEOTIHUACAN‚ Mexico Teotihuacan: {Nahutl: “The City Of The God’s”} Established around 100BC and lasting until its fall around 750BC‚ Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the ancient world. Teotihuacan was a hand-built‚ pre Columbian‚ Mesoamerican city built more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Nahutl-speaking Aztec in Central Mexico. Teotihuacan is said to be situated fewer than 50 kilometers (approx. 30 miles) northeast of Mexico City‚ in the Sub Valley of the Valley of
Premium Mesoamerica Mexico City Mexico
and the Teotihuacan cultures. Their artworks have helped us decipher the other artworks from other cultures before‚ during and after their times. The Olmec culture is one of the oldest cultures in Mesoamerica. The Olmecs were known as one of the oldest cultures‚ as well as‚ the mother culture of Mesoamerican cultures and were estimated to be around from 1000 to 500 BC. The name Olmec comes from the Mexica cultures that came after. It was not the name that the people
Premium Mesoamerica Color Green
Teotihuacan located in the Mexico Valley and is one of the largest pre-Colombian city in the Mesoamerica and the Western Hemisphere. The Teotihuacan occupied central Mexica from around 100AD to 600AD. The Teotihuacan city was composed of many different temples‚ palaces‚ and apartment complex. Some of the major monuments of the Teotihuacan are the pyramids of the sun and the pyramid of the moon. As well as the Old Temple of Quetzalcoatl also known as the Feathered Serpent Pyramid. Identified by their
Premium Mesoamerica Mexico Aztec
Reflection Paper On the assigned reading of week 2: “Modern Buddhist murals in Northern Thailand: a study of religious symbols and meaning”‚ written by John P. Ferguson and Christina B. Johannsen. The title pretty much says it all. In brief‚ the reading aims to explore some symbolic realms of Buddhist murals located in Northern Thailand (Chiengmai) as an attempt to achieve a better understanding of Theravada Buddhism world view. Founded on the belief that religious graphic art does deliver as
Premium Theravada Thailand Buddhism
The impact of murals: the process and the paintings Jeanine Guidry‚ 10 July 2011‚ Richmond‚ VA Introduction Ron Chew‚ in his excellent essay “ Community-based arts organizations: a new center of gravity” mentions the interesting‚ and widespread‚ acknowledgement that traditional European art forms like ballet‚ opera‚ and the symphony can no longer be considered the sole windows into a community’s artistic soul and the sole measure of this country’s creativity (Chew‚ 2009‚ p.1-2). A segment
Premium Art Arts Community building