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THE ART OF MESOAMERICA
From Olmec to Aztec Fourth Edition Mary Ellen Miller
"An essential guide to the art and architecture of ancient Central America."
—Colonial Latin American Historical Review
The fourth edition of this standard work includes exciting new discoveries, from Palenque, Mexico, where architecture and sculpture reveal a dramatic eighth century, to San Bartolo, Guatemala, where Maya paintings have riveted an international audience. Continuing hieroglyphic decipherments provide fresh insights. The revised Art of Mesoamerica is the ideal companion for art historians, students, and travelers alike. Mary Ellen Miller is the Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art at Yale University.
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Mary Ellen Miller evocatively surveys the artistic achievements of the high Precolumbian civilizations—Olmec, Maya,Teotihuacan,Toltec, Aztec—as well as those of their less well-known contemporaries. Their pyramids and palaces, jades and brightly colored paintings emerge from these pages as vividly as when they first astonished Cortes's men in 1519.