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Learning Objective: To explore and recreate the Bonampak murals.
The Maya
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In 1946, two Maya took an American photographer called Giles Healey to the ruins of Bonampak in Mexico. The Maya still went to
the temple to pray to the gods. The Maya showed Healey three rooms with amazing Mayan murals from around the year 800.
Did you know that a fresco is a painting that is done quickly on
wet plaster?
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The three rooms, known now as the Temple of Murals, showed frescoes of Mayan life.
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The rooms had paintings on the walls, as well as on the sloped ceilings.
What can you see on this part of the
mural?
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Artist have now reconstructed the murals so that we can see what they would have looked like when they were new.
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Today you will be recreating the Bonampak murals.
What colours will you need?
How would you describe the style of
art you are recreating?
