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Courtly art of the ancient Maya
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- Creator
- Mary Miller and Simon Martin ; Kathleen Berrin, curator
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [San Francisco] : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2004
- Physical Details
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- 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780500051290, 0500051291
- OCLC
- ocm54799516
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 April-25 July 2004; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 4 September 2004-2 January 2005"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index.
- Life at the Maya court -- The divine models of courtly culture -- Women at court -- Word and image in the Maya court -- The court at war -- Palenque : an exemplary Maya court -- New discoveries and personal accounts in the Maya west ; Gods of the scribes and artists / Michael D. Coe ; Dressed lords and ladies / María Teresa Uriarte ; The multiple of languages of a single relief / Beatriz de la Fuente ; The techniques of the Palenque sculptors / Merle Greene Robertson ; Technique, color, and art at Bonampak / Diana Magaloni ; The cult of patron and ancestor gods in censers at Palenque / Martha Cuevas García ; State and domestic cult in Palenque censer stands / Roberto López Bravo ; The discoveries in Temple 19, Palenque / Alfonso Morales and Julia C. Miller ; History, mythology, and royal legitimization at Palenque's Temple 19 / David Stuart ; The throne panel of Temple 21 at Palenque / Arnoldo González Cruz and Guillermo Bernal Romero ; Shield Jaguar and Structure 23 at Yaxchilan / Roberto García Moll ; The acropolis of Piedras Negras : portrait of a court system / Stephen D. Houston -- Tales from the crypt : the burial place of Ruler 4, Piedras Negras / Héctor L. Escobedo