Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya

Written by leading authorities and including thirteen personal accounts of the latest ground-breaking research, Courtly Arts of the Ancient Maya examines the royal courts and their art in unprecedented depth. Color photographs and specially commissioned drawings reveal a dazzling array of objects that still have the power to engage and astonish observers centuries after their creation.
The book investigates the rise in the importance of the court, its mythical backdrop, the role of women and the place of warfare. The works of artists and scribes - ceramic censers, stucco heads, jade masks, terracotta figurines, stone boxes, and great carved limestone lintels - bring alive the form, texture, and color of their vanished world.

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• Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Duke University Museum of Art)
• Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art
• Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya
• The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
• Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture
• The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence
• Maya
• Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest
• Maya Art and Architecture (World of Art)