Humanities 100 Sayre ch09

Aztec. Coatlicue.Fifteenth century. Basalt. Height: 8' 3".

National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. [Fig. 9.1]

Aztec. The Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui, from the Sacred Precinct, Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlán.

ca. 1469. Stone. Diameter: 10' 10".Museo Templo Mayor, Mexico City. [Fig. 9.2]

Diego de Durán. History of the Indies of New Spain: Aztecs confront the Spaniards.

1581.Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. [Fig. 9.3]

Diego de Durán. History of the Indies of New Spain: The Spanish massacre Aztec nobles in the temple courtyard.

1581.Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. [Fig. 9.4]

Plan of Tenochtitlán, from Cortés’s first letter to the King of Spain.1521.

[Fig. 9.5]

Map: World Exploration, 1486-1611.[Fig. Map 9.1]

Olmec. Colossal head, Mexico, Olmec culture.900-500 BCE. Balsalt. Height: 7' 5".

La Venta Park, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. [Fig. 9.6]

Teotihuacán. Teotihuacán, Mexico, seen from the Pyramid of the Moon, looking south down the Avenue of the Dead, the Pyramid of the Sun at the

left.ca. 350-650 CE.

[Fig. 9.7]

Teotihuacán. The Pyramid of the Moon, looking north up the Avenue of the Dead.

ca. 350-650 CE.[Fig. 9.8]

Mayan. Madrid Codex, leaves 13–16 (of 56 total).ca. 1400. Amatl paper, painted, screenfolded.

Museo de América, Madrid. [Fig. 9.9]

Mayan. “Palace” (foreground) and Temple of Inscriptions (tomb pyramid of Lord Pakal), Palenque, Mexico.

600-900 CE.[Fig. 9.10]

Inca. Inca stone wall of the Coricancha beneath a Dominican monastery, Cuzco, Peru.[Fig. 9.11]

Ife Culture, Nigeria. Head of an Oni (King).ca. thirteenth century. Brass. 11-7/16".

Museum of Ife Antiquities, Ife, Nigeria. [Fig. 9.12]

Map: Sub-Saharan West Africa, 1200-1700.[Fig. Map 9.2]

Yoruba Culture, Nigeria. Ade, or beaded crown.Late twentieth century. Beadwork. Height: 6' 1-1/4".

© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 9.13]

Benin Culture, Nigeria. Benin City as it appeared to an unknown British officer in 1891.1891. Drawing.[Fig. 9.14]

Benin Culture, Nigeria. Head of an Oba. Edo, Court of Benin.ca. 1550. Brass. 9-1/4" x 9-5/8" x 9".

Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 9.15]

Map: Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1870.[Fig. Map 9.3]

Benin (Nigeria). Mask of an iyoba (queen mother), probably Idia.ca. 1550. Ivory, iron, copper. Height: 9-3/8".

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972 (1978.412.323).

[Fig. 9.16]

Benin (Nigeria). Symbol of a coiled mudfish (drawing). Found throughout the art of Benin and in the tiara worn by the iyoba in Fig. 18.7.

[Fig. 9.17]

Benin (Nigeria). Portuguese Warrior Surrounded by Manillas.Sixteenth century. Bronze.

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. [Fig. 9.18]

Kingdom of the Kongo. Mpungi, an ivory horn.Collected before 1553. Ivory.

Museo degli Argenti, Florence. [Fig. 9.19]

Manohar, attributed to. Jahangir in Darbar. India, Mughal period. Northern India.

ca. 1620. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. 13-3/4" x 7-7/8".Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund 14.654.

Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Fig. 9.20]

Bichitr. Jahangir Seated on an Allegorical Throne, from the Leningrad Album of Bichitr.

ca. 1625. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper. 10" x 7-1/8".Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (42.15V).

[Fig. 9.21]

Mogul India. Taj Mahal, Agra, India, built by Shah Jahan.ca. 1632-48.[Fig. 9.22]

Mogul India. Taj Mahal, Agra, India, built by Shah Jahan: Plan.ca. 1632-48.[Fig. 9.23]

Chinese. Plan: the Tang capital of Chang’an, China (black-and-white drawing).

Tang dynasty, ca. 600 CE.[Fig. 9.24]

Chinese character for "mountain". Ink on paper.[Fig. 9-CL.1]

Guo Xi. Early Spring. Hanging scroll. Detail, center right section.Song dynasty, 1072. Ink, slight color on silk.

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [Fig. 9-CL.2]

Guo Xi. Early Spring. Hanging scroll. Detail, lower section.Song dynasty, 1072. Ink, slight color on silk.

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [Fig. 9-CL.3]

Guo Xi. Early Spring. Hanging scroll.Song dynasty, 1072. Ink, slight color on silk. Length: 5'.

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [Fig. 9-CL.4]

Cheng Sixiao. Ink Orchids.Yuan dynasty, 1306. Ink on paper. 10-1/8" x 16-3/4".

Municipal Museum of Fine Art, Osaka, Japan. [Fig. 9.25]

Ming dynasty, China. The Forbidden City, Beijing: The Hall of Supreme Harmony.

1368-1644; rebuilt 18th century. Height: 115'.[Fig. 9.26]

Yin Hong. Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks. Hanging scroll. Ming dynasty, China.

ca. late fifteenth-early sixteenth century. Ink and color on silk. 7' 10-1/2" x 6' 5".

© The Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 74.31. [Fig. 9.27]

Shen Zhou. Poet on a Mountaintop. Leaf from an album of landscapes mounted as part of a handscroll. Ming dynasty, China.

ca. 1500. Ink and color on paper. 15-1/4" x 23-3/4".The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. [Fig. 9.28]

Xuande period, Ming dynasty, China.Pair of porcelain vases with cobalt blue underglaze.

1426-35.[Fig. 9.29]

Map: Japan.[Fig. Map 9.4]

Kosho. Kuya Preaching.Kamakura Japan, before 1207. Painted wood, crystal inlaid eyes. Height: 46-

1/2".Rokuhara Mitsu-ji, Kyoto, Japan. [Fig. 9.30]

Kamakura Japan. Scrolls of Events of the Heiji Period: Detail, Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace (handscroll).

Late thirteenth century. Ink and color on paper. 16-1/4" x 275-1/2".Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Reproduced with permission. © 2011

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All Rights Reserved. Fenollosa-Weld Collection (11.4000). [Fig. 9.31]

Muromachi Japan. Kinkakuji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion), Rokuonji, Kyoto, Japan. Rebuilt in 1964 after the original of the 1390s. [Fig. 9.32]

Soami, attributed to. Garden of the Daisen-in of Daitokuji, Kyoto. Muromachi Japan.ca. 1510-25.[Fig. 9.33]

Momoyama Japan. Himeji Castle, Hyogo prefecture, near Osaka, Japan.1581; enlarged 1601-9.

[Fig. 9.34]

School of Kano. Namban six-panel screen.1593-1600.

Kobe City Museum of Namban Art, Japan. [Fig. 9.35]

Nam June Paik. TV Buddha.1974. Video installation with statue.

Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. [Fig. 9.36]