In the framework of the state visit of President Enrique Peña Nieto to Germany, the exhibition “The Maya: The language of beauty” takes place , including works created over a millennium until the arrival of the Spaniards after 1500.
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Although the exhibit does not include is perhaps the legacy best known of the Mayan culture, its monumental architecture, if they exhibit their portraits of the body, clothing and gods.
curator Karina Romero White said the exhibition highlights “the multiplicity of forms and visual languages that the Maya themselves used”.
a stylized portrait of a ruler serious face, adorned with scars, and a statuette of a person apparently suffering from dropsy, and sculptures of captives kneeling war and arms tied behind their backs, are some of the works that are part of the exhibit.
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“I really striking as many aesthetic proposals Maya refer to as contemporary uses such as body painting and piercing, “the curator noting that the scars on the face and sharpening teeth are some of the traditions of body ornamentation on display.
the exhibition opens to the public on April 12 and continue until August 7
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