The king is wearing his hair back with quetzal feathers indicating that he will also let blood in this ceremony. These were located in what is known as Element 21 in Room 1 of Structure 23 at Yaxchilan. And for me, the task of this kind of scholarship that is exemplified in this book, we think, is to retrieve that knowledge in various ways and for various objectives. . Subtle differences in the three lintels suggest that the compositions were completed by two or three different artists. The rock-cut excavated cave temples were more durable, and the non-load-bearing carved stone lintels allowed creative ornamental uses of classical Buddhist elements. it is possible, but considering the size of the monolith it would be quite difficult to print anything. It was most likely built by Bird Jaguar IV, who like his father Shield Jaguar II engaged in a series of building projects and commissioned various monuments as part of his campaign to legitimate his rule. But why focus on Lady Xook rather than Shield Jaguar II exclusively? Look for new episodes of Art and Ideas every other Wednesday, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms. Which is the guerillas not only had this commendable ethos of protecting ruins, they were committed to an ideological perspective about patrimony in the country; but really for a practical reason, they did not want looters padding through the forest in ways that might potentially report on the location of guerilla combatants, and then pass on that information to the military. Or what else would there be? The capture of sacrificial victims was an essential aspect of Maya warfare, as they were necessary for many rituals. Its where most of their food came from. Structure 21, commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV, housed lintels 15, 16 and 17. And ultimately, we want to be able to extract information about the political, the cultural, and the aesthetic circumstances of its creation. And at those moments, there would be the impersonations of gods, in which their ethereal substance would be housed in the flesh of the dancer. [4] The earliest carved lintels were created in 723 CE. He is shown wearing a pectoral with a representation of the sun god depicted. The first two glyphs in the text at the top of the lintel indicate the event and the date on which it took place, October24, 709 C.E. Tell us about that. Discover the latest Getty news and stories at our new home on, The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Maya Carving, PODCAST: International Museum Directors on COVID-19 and Collaboration, Part 2, PODCAST: New Insights into Jacopo da Pontormos Style with Curator Davide Gasparotto, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Some of it can be super soft; its almost like talc powder. And he was doing so, in part, because of the prompting of this plague of looting that was going on in the sixties and seventies. The Dharma at Big Sur Sri Moonshine and A New Day. Music written by John Adams and licensed with permission from Hendon Music. Yaxchiln lintel 24 (detail), after 709 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 109 x 78 x 6 cm Trustees of the British Museum. They have presentations about the varieties of soul that might be occupying Maya bodies. The ruler was believed to be a descendent of the gods, and the act of bloodletting was of critical importance in maintaining their power and order in the community. Does lintel 26 depict the same thing? 250-900), kings and queens of powerful city . And that is to find out more about the carvingwho made it and why, what it might communicate more broadly about the Maya and ancient imagery more generally. Only the carver is, through his name glyphs, as it is expressed in the orbits of the lintel being lifted. So in all of these, what you do see is a kind of theme that threads through them, which is the stories had to be often rather desultory, like life itself. The disembodied head of Chac (1978.412.24) from Chichn Itz has skeletal features that add a sinister dimension to this work from the years just before the abandonment of Maya cities. Direct link to Julia Kopell's post it is possible, but consi, Posted 3 years ago. And they probably wouldve done this trip earlier, but World War II intervened. In 1950, the American explorer Dana Lamb happened upon a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. 1 : to expand something in detail would you care to elaborate on that statement. The resources and tools necessarylimestone quarries, chisels, blades, and polishing stoneshave been found by archaeologists. After the collapse of the Classic Period kingdoms, Maya artists at northern cities like Chichn Itz drew influence from Central Mexico and southern Central America as they adorned their temples and created spectacular offerings to their rulers and deities. Direct link to Stf Murison's post I cannot remember the sou, Posted 6 years ago. And then often, these kinds of carvings among the Maya are either ritually deactivated or they might be destroyed by enemies. Such careful attention to detail as well as the formal qualities of the line compare to other Maya sculptures, as well as vase painting and murals. Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. And thats where we have a good purchase on what the Maya felt and thought about these kind of sculptures. And so many of them went to, of all places, Canada, which was, of course, part of the British Empire as well, until fairly recently. Direct link to Maia Diamonstone-Cruz's post Forgive me if this seems , Posted 5 years ago. Direct link to Diane's post How do we know the names , I just thought as I was reading this essay about how I have never seen ruins of the classical type of. And theyll involve or project very elaborate scenes of captives being taken in battle, and also in the ensuing tribute that would come from the feet of enemies. Thanks for listening. It was Mayuy, which is a word that refers to mist and clouds. The human head worn by Shield Jaguar over his brow may be a shrunken battle trophy. It makes them tremendously exciting to study. Some of these stairways also show ball playing. Then there was the time of quarrying, in which the limestone is taken out of a stone bed. In freestanding Indian building examples, the Hoysala architecture tradition between the 11th and 14th centuries produced many elaborately carved non-structural stone lintels in the Southern Deccan Plateau region of southern India. We know, for instance, hes coming from an enemy dynasty. The lintel dates to about 723726 AD, placing it within the Maya Late Classic period. In classical Western architecture and construction methods, by Merriam-Webster definition, a lintel is a load-bearing member and is placed over an entranceway. The Narmer Palette is the name of an elaborately carved shield-shaped slab of gray schist made during the Old Kingdom of Dynastic Egypt (ca. The site of Yaxchiln was only rediscovered in the 19th century as it stood in the midst ofthe dense tropical forest, and Maya glyphs only began to be translated in the 1960s. And then the final touch, which really, really caused us great joy when we figured this out, is that the two underlings are literally also lifting the lintel itself. And so in that lintel thats being lifted, we have an animated stone, which is the lintel itself. A bloodletting ritual. Throughout this considerable literature one encounters arguments and corrections as to which structures and doorways the various lintels, long removed from the site, originally pertained. Theyre found in many, many palaces. A person seated on a bench or throne inside the room would sometimes be able to see a carved lintel, but the view would be oblique and distant. Dating from between AD 769 and 783, these door beams, subsequently looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. And so by walking around it, youre, in some ways, participating in whatever kinetic activity that involved. HOUSTON: Today, its very much close to a number of millions. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. And they also tell us that he was able to craft within this object a masterful political statement that aligned politics with understandings of that time of cosmos, and even of creation, and also vice versa. Direct link to toxicfoltgms's post what is a vent guys idk i, Posted 8 years ago. The other thing to remember about Dana is that he was a very early Boy Scout and he was a committed scout master. And thats what makes them really exciting to us, as well. Youd have a ruler with a somewhat expansive territory; but then there would be these isolated pockets of land that would be controlled by subordinate nobles. The scenes are carved in high relief with carefully incised details decorating the raised surfaces. In the case of windows, the bottom span is instead referred to as a sill, but, unlike a lintel, does not serve to bear a load to ensure the integrity of the wall. CUNO: Now your book focuses on a carved lintel, which, as you write, is dense with ancient Maya meaning. Tell us about the role of such carvings in ancient Maya culture. It weighs 120 tons, with approximate dimensions 8.3 5.2 1.2 m,[2] one of the largest in the world. What do you mean by that? His undergraduate degree was in physics, of all things. In Lintel 24 and 25, Lady Xoc is seen performing blood sacrifice in one or another way. In the image below, you can see that the figure emerging from the vision serpents mouth is armed with a shield, spear and a war helmet. The others are in very, very similar style. But he made it his job to go out and record all of these carvings before they were looted, and to retrieve as much of their context as possible. To become a master, a journeyman has to submit a master piece of work to . It might be that the ruler wanted to promote his lineage and power through his principal wife (who had more prestige than his other wives). CUNO: Now, when and under what circumstances was this particular carved lintel found? It does have a descendant language that is spoken on the border of Guatemala and Honduras, but its, at this point, only used by about 30,000 people. Shield Jaguar II's commissions at Yaxchiln's central complex of buildings (called the Central Acropolis) include carved lintels (the beam at the top of a doorway), stairs faced with hieroglyphic writing, and stele (upright wood or stone slab monuments). A fearsome full-bodied portrait (66.181) shows Chac grimacing and holding a double-bladed axe as if to threaten the beholders. Both king and queen are richly attired with Sun God pectorals. For the ancient Maya, jade objects embodied the color blue-green (the spectrum of blues and green was referred to as one word, yax, in the Classic Mayan language), which symbolized new growth, water, and primordial places and beings. And he trekked to the site with locals. A lintel may support the chimney above a fireplace, or span the distance of a path or road, forming a stone lintel bridge. This limestone lintel is one of a series of three panels commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV for Structure 21 at Yaxchiln and was once set above the right-hand (north-west) doorway of the central chamber. One building was constructed a bit early; the later came about ten years after that. I cannot remember the source I got this from, will find it soon. And what they tell us is that these carvings were made by an identifiable, superlative sculptor whose name we know and can decipher. Lintel 25 (below)from the central doorwayalso focuses on a bloodletting ritual carried out by Lady Xook. But in point of fact, thats pretty unusual. Yeah. And its playing out in his full body of work. STEPHEN HOUSTON: Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. And these figures are always looking down on you, in a way that the Maya thought of the ancestors as doing on a perennial basis. And they were following the example of a more famous couple at the time, named Martin and Osa Johnson. The Classic Period derives its name from an early comparison with the Greekclassical world: the time in which artists reached the pinnacle of naturalistic and beautiful artistic achievement. It was a significant Maya centerduring the Classic period (250-900 C.E.) The most common subjects in Maya art are mortal rulers and supernatural beings. Yaxchiln lintel 16 (commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV for Structure 21), after 752 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 76.2 x 75.7 cm, Mexico Trustees of the British Museum. And that is where a lot of these lintels come from, are these small communities that were under the thumb of Yaxchilan. So that if you see a stele or an upright stone monolith on a Maya plaza, for the Maya, it was a being or a ruler, usually, who is shown in perpetual, almost frozen, dance. Direct link to Jeff Kelman's post I just thought as I was r, Posted 7 years ago. HOUSTON: Thats right. We have the ruler himself, the king of Yaxchilan, who is embodying the sun; the magnate, whos seated by him, is representing the night and a time when maize grows. 9th ed. A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. And then the final thing to remember about all of these carvings is that theyre interacting with changing meteorological circumstances. "His sculpture was erected, Mo Chaak, he of Hixil?". What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.6)? AAA theater review may be influenced by factors outside of the production, such as the reviewer's opinion of the play itself and past experiences with the theater company. JIM CUNO: Hello, Im Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust. There they encountered a rich cache of decorated structures made in the first millennium CE, including a particularly elaborate limestone lintel (a horizontal support above a doorway) carved by an artisan named Mayuy. HOUSTON: Yeah. And what they also tell us is that this sculptor introduced idiosyncratic, brilliant effects, and that he asserted his identity in ways that were not otherwise known in the corpus of Maya carvings. In Yaxchilan, structure 23 is seen as the place of Lady Xoc's. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. Intricate latticework covers the symmetrical roof-comb and the buildings overall style is reminiscent of buildings found at other important Classic Maya city-states like Palenque. Its not as important as Yaxchilan. Its very broken landscape. Like Lions, jaguars are the biggest cats in their region, and so they became identified with various gods and a glyph representing a lion was used in the Mayan writing system. a bloodletting ritual Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. A common medium of Maya sculpture that is almost entirely lost to observers today is that of wood. Now, he, in this volume, decided to go look for primitive nativesthats very much in quotation marksin rawest jungle. And thats when we start seeing very large cities, in fact, of a scale, of a magnitude that really is seldom documented even anywhere else in the world. And at the same time, concurrently, there was, I would also say, a mounting or growing interest, in places like New York City or in Europe, in what was then called primitive art, a term, of course, we eschew completely at this point. There are flower tassels on the main part of the head band and a mosaic depiction of Tlaloc sprouting quetzal feathers. The Maya rain god, known as Chac, also features prominently in later Maya art. Maya sculptors also invested a monumental amount of labor in portable goods made of stone. Structure 33, Yaxchiln (Maya) (photo: Graham Duggan, CC BY-ND 2.0). How does that relate, how does that site relate to El Tunel or Bonampak? Recent excavations have unearthed what is thought to be the tombs of Itzamnaaj Bahlam and Lady Xoc within Structure 23. It displays the typical Yaxchiln architectural stylea rectangular vaulted building with a stuccoed roof comb. His son and heir, Bird Jaguar IV, continued this tradition. But beyond that, there are far more ethereal matters being discussed in the surviving textual record from that time and also in the imagery. Shield Jaguar IIs commissions at Yaxchilns central complex of buildings (called the Central Acropolis) include, Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building) showing Shield Jaguar IIs wife, Lady Kabal Xook. Some of the most famous lintels are those on Structure 23a yotoot (palace building . Not on view. Now, what we know about Lamb, Dana Lamb, is that he comes across as a blundering neophyte in this deep jungle. T/F 12. But each one of them is intensively looted. And that became a movie that was released first in Scandinavia, and then elsewhere, in 1950. CUNO: So we have three sites, if I have my numbers correct, El Tunel being one of them; Yaxchilan being another; and Bonampak being a third. What does it mean when someone says elaborate? It was the center around which they tended to revolve. Look closely at the detail below. Ancient Maya Sculpture. InHeilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Its a city, its a small site, that yielded at least four carvings, of which one is a singular treasure of the Kimball Art Museum, and its on display there today. And by explore, I meant someone who was not burdened by the need to stay at one site, but he visited hundreds, if not a thousand Maya ruins, doing maps and also recording inscriptions. The text comprises three discrete sections. And this mustve been in the air of the time, because of the release, in 1947, of a lot of publicity about the Kon-Tiki expedition by Thor Heyerdahl. HOUSTON: The stone itself is a depiction of four figures, and probably a mythological being, as well. Welcome to Art and Ideas, a podcast in which I speak to artists, conservators, authors, and scholars about their work. And then it concludes, I would say, with what we call the Post-Classic, which is a very tendentious term. Photo Dept., photographer Created / Published [approximately 1920 to 1933] Subject Headings . Structure 40 (above) sits in the South Acropolis, flanked by two other structures. And you write that they have an unstable relationship to time. And Ive often wondered, as have others, why didnt he eventually fess up? Yaxchiln lintel 24, structure 23, after 709 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 109 x 78 x 6 cm, Mexico Trustees of the British Museum. At times, its just claptrap. Theyre living in palaces; there are populations that are going into the millions; we have intensive agriculture, trade, economic tribute. ti-5-EB 15-ma-AK-u-ba-hi ti-CHAB-li ti-KAK-la-ju-lu u-CHAB-4-WINIKHAB-AJAW ITZ-BALAM-ma-u-cha-CHAN-nu a-NIK-ki KUHUL-[PA]CHAN-AJAW Lamb was notoriously reticent about where he discovered the carvings, turning his find into an archeological mystery at the heart of the new book A Maya Universe in Stone, edited by Stephen Houston and published by the Getty Research Institute. There seems to be a very context-specific use of genre designs. HOUSTON: Well, we have a few examples of reliefs that have essentially transferred designs from pots. And the lintels are features of buildings that span doorways. Remember that the main figure is impersonating the sun god. So its part of the same world. CUNO: You write about the historical practice of partage. Theyre almost communicating the idea that the writing is bejeweled in some ways. It is the earliest monumental representation of any pharaoh: the carvings on the palette depict events in the life of King Narmer, also known as Menes, considered the founding ruler of Dynastic Egypt. These prestressed concrete lintels and blocks are components that are packed together and propped to form a suspended floor concrete slab. Doyle, James. We dont know what the ancient name of the city was. And they were then combined with a clay called palygorskite, which is found in only a few locations. The charcoal for the barbecue was supplied by the park rangers. Ceremonial blades made of flint (1978.412.195) or chert served as royal scepters. Tikal has 1, Palenque has 5 doorways? Non-structural decorative lintel at Buddhist Banteay Srei, in Cambodia, Non-structural lintel in Buddhist cave temple at Ellora Caves, India, Door lintel in Bozen-Bolzano from 1632 with Elias Tagger's coat of arms, South Tyrol, Italy, Non-structural marriage stone lintel at 'The Hill' farm, Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland, One of many 16th century door lintels in Edinburgh's Old Town, Simonsbath House, Simonsbath, Exmoor Parish, Devon. In this episode, Stephen Houston, editor of A Maya Universe in Stone, explores the production and complex afterlives of these Maya objects. There are four carvings known. It has been logged and given over to cattle farming or to intensive agriculture. The sculpture occupies almost the . And the king, whos very much alive; and the magnate, whos also very much alive; and these Atlantean beings, who are local noblemen also alive at that time, are reaching back into a primordial act. u baah ti chabil ix chakan xook Ix Kabal Xook ix kalomte And I would be also shocked if Mayuy, the carver that weve been examining, didnt know the painters, didnt know the carvers at Bonampak. Its a white clay. 2 : to produce by labor. Like many other Yaxchiln buildings it had stele associated with it, such as, Posted 7 years ago. Direct link to Joss Glenn's post For the AP exam, is it im, Posted 7 years ago. Lintel 24 was found in its original context alongside Lintels 25 and 26 in Structure 23 of Yaxchilan. Were they inscribed into the lintels or something? And its not so much in details, but its what you might say have to do with rituals, with covenants of duty, with relations to land, and indeed, to time itself. Its not gonna support a lot of people. Mayan Queen and Consort of Yaxchilan, Lady Xoc is considered to be the most powerful woman of the Maya Civilization. Its a heavily folded topography. So they are very much part of the firmament of the United States, as well. There would be a carving, there would be an act of erection or emplacement. Hes probably looking for a more lucrative position here in this kingdom. In the first millennium B.C., Maya artists began to sculpt in stone, stucco, wood, bone, shell, and fired clay. Modern day lintels are made using . Direct link to dv.cneff's post water, salt, 1920s, 1798,, Posted 2 years ago. What kind of stories do the reliefs tell, and do they tell different stories than the vases tell? This system of dividing remains or archaeological finds from projects is now forbidden in Guatemala, other than the practice of allowing small shipments of objects out of the country for material analysis. And we can understand by looking at all of these carvings, which are sometimes which sometimes affix his signature, how he developed, what fascinated him, how he grafted, in this instance, a political arrangement between a king and a magnate-lord onto a pattern that really gets into complex iconography or imagery. false The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a powerful hunter true What an extraordinary title. And what were those pigments made of? Yaxchilan was, as the Laxtunich lintel tells us, in a way both figuratively and literally, the sun for the local political system. Laxtunich was a name that was concocted by Lamb. And h Music Credits Other relief sculptures, such as Lintel 45 on Structure 44, show Shield Jaguar II with war captives to commemorate his victory in battles against rival city-states. One such site is Yaxchiln (pronounced Yash-chee-LAN) located in Chiapas, Mexico (close to the border of Guatemala) between the famous Maya cities of Copn and Palenque. CUNO: This episode was produced by Zoe Goldman and Karen Fritsche, with audio production by Gideon Brower and mixing by Myke Dodge Weiskopf. The contour and incised lines of the lintels possess a calligraphic quality, as if they were drawn or painted rather than carved. And these were very much the center of the publication for the Getty. All rights reserved. Wearing an exquisitely woven "huipil,"Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women. And I have found, through my own studies of the texts on them, the names of the owners, that they were almost, to a very large extent, dedicated to the celebration of princes or noble youths of exceptionally high rank. Was the rope thick, of was it thin, because the picture makes the rope look very thick, but it would be hard to pull a super thick rope through your TONGUE! He was arguably the greatest scientific explorer of the Maya in the twentieth century. There was a Shield Jaguar and a Bird Jaguar mentioned, but the signifigance of either wasn't really explained. Its because he was essentially self-supporting, Jim. And so that was extremely distressing for the field. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.5)? CUNO: Is there a corpus of work by this artist that is identifiable? How did they know how to translate mayan glyphs? As seen in this panel, Maya sculptors celebrated the human form in a naturalistic way, portraying royal individuals as they sit, stand, hold things, and interact with one another. CUNO: Now, thats extremely interesting. But there are, in the Guatemalan side, not too far, almost certainly, from which the lintel was found, where there are more or less untouched reserves of rain forest, with forest giants like mahogany or animals like jaguar, which are long gone elsewhere. But there wouldve been loggers; there wouldve been people out there tapping whats called the chicozapote or sapodilla tree, in order to extract the sap that would eventually make its way into chewing gum, at that time. In Yaxchilan, structure 23 is seen as the place of Lady Xoc's. He was a sprig of the ducal tree of the Dukes of Montrose in Scotland, so he came from a very distinguished background. RM G169RT - Post and lintel is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts. The giant portrait that hangs over Tiananmen depicts one of the founders of ancient China. And in addition to that, we are laying out the kind of cultural parameters for what will become Classic Maya civilization, which is the period I study. The lintel has traces of Maya blue, turquoise and red pigment. 4 Wei-Cheng Lin, . The Hoysala Empire era was an important period in the development of art and architecture in the South Indian Kannadiga culture. But the pigments were cooked in such a way as to cause them to blend in a manner that could be successfully applied to the surface. In this lintel, Lady Xook (in the lower right) kneels before a vision serpent, from whose mouth emerges a figure. For the AP exam, is it important to know where everything is located in present time? But also, as I mentioned before, that the setting truly matterswhere the building was found, what that building might have presented architecturally, what might be the archaeological deposits nearby. 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