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EXH Opening: Ancient American Architectural Models at the Met. Museum of Art, NY

October 26, 2015

Design for Eternity

Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas

October 26, 2015–September 18, 2016

#DesignforEternity

Architectural model

From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, artists from the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural models to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic, wood, and metal range from highly abstracted, minimalist representations of temples and houses to elaborate architectural complexes populated with figures. Such miniature structures were critical components in funerary practice and beliefs about an afterlife, and they convey a rich sense of ancient ritual as well as the daily lives of the Aztecs, the Incas, and their predecessors.

This exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, sheds light on the role of these objects in mediating relationships between the living, the dead, and the divine. It also provides a rare look at ancient American architecture, much of which did not survive to the present day. Some thirty remarkable loans from museums in the United States and Peru join works from the Metropolitan Museum’s permanent collection, which is particularly rich in this material.

For more information please see http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/design-for-eternity

 

Venue

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028 United States
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Association for Latin American Art
http://associationlatinamericanart.org/