Mayan Art (11)


Source: José Alcina Franch. Pre-Columbian Art. Trans. I. Mark Paris. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983, p. 222, plate 92.
Notes: Here you see detail from a page from the Codex Tro-Cortesianus. It was produced during the Classic Mayan period (600 - 900). This famous codex is in the Museo de América in Madrid.
Latin American humanities themes: pictographic writing; horror vacui; admiratio