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HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America Week 7

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Todays Agenda Day 12 Attendance Inca Architecture (1150-1541) Medieval Spain (411-1500): 1.Al-Andalusian/Spain 2.Architecture and Art 2 nd Assignment is due today

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Attendance

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CANVAS

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Inca Architecture Cultural Periods (1150-1541) Expansion 1438 CE

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Review 1200: Manco Cpac organizes the kernel of the Inca people. 1438: Expansion of Tawantinsuyo started with Inca Pachacuti

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Tawantinsuyo four cardinal points Four Suyos (side/location): 1.Collasuyo (S) 2.Chinchaysuyo (N) 3.Contisuyo (SW) 4.Antisuyo (NE) Inti = sun

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Inca Architecture (1) 1. It is widely known for its fine masonry, which features precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar. 2. No internal walls and roofed with wooden beams and thatch. Gabled roofs, rooms with one or two of the long sides opened and rooms that shared a long wall.

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Precisely cut and shaped stones

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A thatched Bed & Breakfast Hotel

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Gabled Roofs

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Storehouses qollqa: Gabled Roofs

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Residential area: gabled roofs

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3. Wall apertures, including doors, niches and windows, usually had a trapezoidal shape. They could be fitted with double or triple jambs as a form of ornamentation. 4. Rectangular buildings were used for quite different functions in almost all Inca buildings, from humble houses to palaces and temples. Inca Architecture Characteristics (2)

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Trapezoidal Shape

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Trapezoidal Windows

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Lintel and double jamb Lintel Double jamb

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Kancha Main rectangular enclosure Inca Architecture (3)

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Cusco City

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Testimonies of this type of architecture are

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Ollantaytambo (La Fortaleza/The Fortress)

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Top of La Fortaleza Precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar.

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The bath of the Princess Chakana

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Machu Picchu

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Pachacutec (Pachacuti) built Cuzco and Machu Picchu in 1438. Means old mountain. Ancients work systems: 1.Minca ( team work for the Ayllu ) 2.Mita ( community service ) 3.Ayni ( team work of the ayllu ) MINKA 1438 - 1541: Inca culture and empire (Tawantinsuyu)

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Pedro Cieza de Len "For as is well known to all, not a single village of the highlands or the plains failed to pay the tribute levied on it by those who were in charge of these matters. There were even provinces where, when the natives alleged that they were unable to pay their tribute, the Inca ordered that each inhabitant should be obliged to turn in every four months a large quill full of live lice, which was the Inca's way of teaching and accustoming them to pay tribute

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Terraced structures

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Agricultural sector

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Intihuatana / Inti watana HUATA TO TIE UP, TO HICH & NA is a suffix for TOOL or PLACE

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Mesoamerica Important Dates Maya: Classic 353-900CE Hasaw Chan Kawill reigned since 695CE & Hasaw's wife, Lady Twelve Macaw, died in 704 Maya: Post-classic 900-1523 (1697) Teotihuacanos 100 BCE 750CE Toltecs 900 1200 Aztecs 1300 1521 Inca Civilization 1150-1541 1200: Manco Cpac organizes the kernel of the Inca people. Machu Picchu is built in 1450-1480 by Pachacuti.

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Medieval Spain (411- 1500) Al-Andalus/ Spain

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From Moorish Architecture and Art Style to Spanish Style

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1. Early Medieval Spain (ca.411585) 2. Medieval Islamic Spain (ca.710-1492) 3. Medieval Christian Spain (ca.1492) 4. Medieval Spanish Culture (ca.1492-1500) End of Medieval age in Spain (1500) Dates

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1. Early Medieval Spain (ca.411585) 2. Medieval Islamic Spain (ca.710-1492) 3. Medieval Christian Spain (ca.1492) 4. Medieval Spanish Culture (ca.1492-1500) Architecture of Al-Andalus (Mudejar style) 2. Medieval Islamic Spain (ca.710-1492) The year 1492 is commonly accepted as the beginning of the influence of the Renaissance in Spain.

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Periods and styles in Art and Architecture: 1.Byzantine (circa 295-650) 2.Pre-Romanesque (500-1000) (Mudejar Style influence) 3.Romanesque (1000-1200) (Mudejar style influence) 4.Gothic (1200-1500) (Mudejar style influence)Gothic

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Map of Al-Andalus (Spain) in the 10th century Granada Sevilla Crdova How did Spain look like during these 782 years?

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Santa Maria del Naranco (850 CE) Visigothic architecture Early medieval secular architecture Belongs to the Kingdom of Asturias (North) 587 CE converted to Catholicism Maya Classic 353-900CE

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Mudejar Style (Muslim Architecture) 710-1492 CE Influence of the Muslim architecture can be appreciated in the center and south of Spain

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Mudejar style Symbiosis of techniques and ways of understanding architecture resulting from Muslim and Christian cultures. Brick as the main material. Developed complicated tiling patterns. Dominant geometrical character. The Alcazar of Seville is considered one of the greatest surviving examples of the style.

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Alczar from Sevilla (ca.1300)

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Alcazar of Seville (inner courtyard) Interior

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Map of Al-Andalus (Spain) in the 10th century Granada Sevilla Crdova

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The Great Mosque of Cordova (784 CE)

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The Great Mosque of Cordova (784 CE) exterior

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Alhambra, Granada (1237 CE)

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Mesoamerica Important Dates Maya: Classic 353-900CE Hasaw Chan Kawill reigned since 695CE & Hasaw's wife, Lady Twelve Macaw, died in 704 Maya: Post-classic 900-1523 (1697) Teotihuacanos 100 BCE 750CE Toltecs 900 1200 Aztecs 1300 1521 Inca Civilization 1150-1541 1200: Manco Cpac organizes the kernel of the Inca people. Machu Picchu is built in 1450-1480 by Pachacuti.

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Alhambra, Granada (1237 CE) interior

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Alczar from Segovia (1120 CE)

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Map of Spain in the 10th century Granada Sevilla Crdova. Segovia

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Mesoamerica Important Dates Maya: Classic 353-900CE Hasaw Chan Kawill reigned since 695CE & Hasaw's wife, Lady Twelve Macaw, died in 704 Maya: Post-classic 900-1523 (1697) Teotihuacanos 100 BCE 750CE Toltecs 900 1200 Aztecs 1300 1521 Inca Civilization 1150-1541 1200: Manco Cpac organizes the kernel of the Inca people. Machu Picchu is built in 1450-1480 by Pachacuti.

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Al-Andalus Spain 1.1469: Isabel and Ferdinand married. 2.1492: Emir Muhammad XII surrendered the Emirate of Granada to Queen Isabella I of Castile. 3.1492: Jews are expelled from Spain.*** 4.14921507 - The remaining Muslims in the Crown of Castile were ordered to become Catholic. Santa Inquisition. 5.The cultural and social contributions under Muslim rule still persist in Al-Andalus/Spain.

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2 nd Assignment HW#4 is due today (week 7)

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