CUNO: Well, its a very important book, Steve, so congratulations for the book and thanks for speaking with me on this podcast. false The sculpture Chibinda Ilunga, made by the Chokwe people of Central Africa, depicts a king as a powerful hunter true It speaks about cataclysmic storms, almost a hurricane, artesian wells that are spurting like volcanoes, and so forth. Her elaborately carved huipil is trimmed with fringe and pearls. 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. 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 I think it was always, Jim, quite remote, even in the times of the Classic period. Welcome to Art and Ideas, a podcast in which I speak to artists, conservators, authors, and scholars about their work. 2013:4; cf . Many of the exteriors had elaborate decorations, but it is the carved stone lintels above their doorways which have made this site famous. The giant portrait that hangs over Tiananmen depicts one of the founders of ancient China. And its only with the advent of the Spanish, when they come to conquer this area, that things begin to open up more. Also located within the Central Acropolis near Structure 23, Structure 33 (dedicated around 756 C.E.) Lintel 26 was discovered in 1897 by Teobert Maler. Getty staff select highlights of Getty multimedia, new and from the archives. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. Anyone entering Structure 23 would pass. A lintel or lintol is a type of beam that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. Some of these stairways also show ball playing. Tikal has 1, Palenque has 5 doorways? Houston contextualizes carved lintels within ancient Maya history and visual and spiritual practices, and discusses the fraught nature of their re-emergence in the twentieth century. And this came as something of a controversy in my field because everyone had assumed there was a local expression of whatever language might be spoken at that time. Standing on your head in public would be considered conspicuous. And I even use this analogy of trying to date a boat simply by when a champagne bottle was broken on its prow at the time of launching. But the intent was to have a grand adventure. Rome? And the lintels are features of buildings that span doorways. CUNO: Now, give us an outline of the history of the ancient Maya. Blood scrolls can be seen on her face. Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. The artist was careful to show such minute details as the strings that are tied to hold on the wrist cuffs worn by both royals, and the pattern woven on Itzamnaaj Bahlams beautiful cape. Yaxchilan itself is in not a very prepossessing area. 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. Rulers needed to shed blood in order to maintain order in the cosmos. Direct link to Emma.Horsefan.2004's post maby it was to show the d, Posted 6 years ago. 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. He was continually perplexed by this problem of sorting out where these lintels came from precisely. The sculpture occupies almost the . Three-dimensional wooden objects are scarcer and primarily known from dry tombs, cave contexts, or waterlogged anoxic conditions. Its a white clay. It is possible that this is Bird Jaguar IV. Direct link to jay.vanderveen.personal's post The queen can be identifi, Posted 8 years ago. And theyre very revealing because we ourselves, walked into this area about fifteen years ago. Note: the monuments and objects uncovered at Yaxchiln are numbered in the order in which they were foundso Lintel 1 is not the oldest, but rather the first to be excavated by archaeologists. The royal courts of the Maya kings and queens employed full-time painters and sculptors, some of whom signed their works. It really begins to take off in about AD 100 or so. On what basis can you determine that there is a corpus of works by the same single sculptor? [4] The earliest carved lintels were created in 723 CE. Attached to his head band is what appears to be a representation of the Jester Mask. Yeah. Its got a nose, its got an eye. And in fact, the largest indigenous group in the United States today are speakers of Mayan languages whove immigrated here. Now, what makes this lintel fascinating for us, at least in political terms, is that this monument and the other carvings that come from buildings nearby are not from the actual dynastic capital, which was called Yaxchilan, but rather they derive from a pretty small site thats on the troubled margins of that kingdom. 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! 9th ed. By pulling the rope studded with obsidian shards through her tongue, she causes blood to drip onto paper strips held in a woven basket to be burned as depicted on Lintel 25. And I was being, I think, a little audacious in that statement I just made about stability, because obviously, looting does thrive in conditions of instability. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady XOOK? CUNO: Well, tell us about the book and the film, Quest for the Lost City. The resources and tools necessarylimestone quarries, chisels, blades, and polishing stoneshave been found by archaeologists. And it tends to vary enormously in quality. HOUSTON: El Tunel is Laxtunich, in our opinion. But even the coloration of the stone lintels that were looking as is similar to what you might see in the paintings, and also the carvings, that help to define the doorways leading into the great murals at Bonampak. Seems like a close 'cousin' to the ritual practice of the Plains Indians. It was Mayuy, which is a word that refers to mist and clouds. And in this is limestone, which the carvings made out of. Wooden lintel over kitchen fireplace with carved date of 1654, Lintel above the entrance to Jagdschloss Grunewald, Germany, "Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture - Lintel", "NCRP Report 151 Structural shielding design and evaluation for megavoltage x-and gamma-ray radiotherapy facilities", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lintel&oldid=1116905316, This page was last edited on 18 October 2022, at 23:23. In fact, its being enveloped by the growth of that urban zone. Some depict individuals in costumes impersonating deities or other characters (1979.206.953), women with rich clothing and jewelry (1979.206.373), or deities themselves (1979.206.728). It is often found . HOUSTON: Thats right. Bloodletting was a common ritual among elites and it is one of the most frequent subjects in Maya art. The sculptor, Chakalte, signed this lintel and at least two other works during his career. James Doyle And then it concludes, I would say, with what we call the Post-Classic, which is a very tendentious term. Carved from one piece of wood, the composition combines two classic Yoruba icons of power and leadership. And ultimately, should it be feasible, I think theres an interest, potentially, in repatriation by some process, legal or otherwise. CUNO: Were there pots found at the same site as the lintel itself? And its already putting you in a kind of subordinate or supplicative position, in which youre in some discomfort trying to access them. [5], Lintels may also be used to reduce scattered radiation in medical applications. Direct link to Jin Park's post It's mentioned that the i, Posted 4 years ago. Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Floating down the Usumacinta River in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala, various Maya sites materialize out of the dense jungle, some rising above the canopy and others subsumed by a tangle of green growth. Scenes representing the public display of captives occur frequently in Maya art. The colossal statue of Constantine the Great departs completely from statues of earlier Roman Is elaborate the same as explain? STEPHEN HOUSTON: Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. [1] Its mid-relief carving depicts the ruler of Yaxchilan, Itzamnaaj Bahlam III, and his consort Lady Kabal Xoc, performing a ceremony of bloodletting; the imagery is also accompanied by descriptive captions, and (unusually for a Maya monumental text) a signature by the sculptor, Mo Chaak. Then, decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. 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. Due to the association with Lady Xocs burial in Room 2, these have been interpreted as being depicted on Lintel 24. And in a way, theres a sort of studied inattention from the part of the figures on the lintel; theyre not looking at the viewer down below. Recent excavations have unearthed what is thought to be the tombs of Itzamnaaj Bahlam and Lady Xoc within Structure 23. 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. And so Lambs objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. 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. Modern day lintels are made using prestressed concrete and are also referred to as beams in beam and block slabs or ribs in rib and block slabs. And Ive often wondered, as have others, why didnt he eventually fess up? And so that was extremely distressing for the field. And so to some extent, each one of those language groups and the ethnic groups they represent have had their own varied history of research. [2] We are able to study the detail of Mayan weaving as depicted in these carvings, and see the pearls woven into the fabric. And then from the dates on the monument, we also know that theyre focusing on the equinox, on the break between the Maya dry season and the Maya wet season, a time in which things grow in very different paces. The scenes are carved in high relief with carefully incised details decorating the raised surfaces. He was arguably the greatest scientific explorer of the Maya in the twentieth century. CUNO: Is there a corpus of work by this artist that is identifiable? The identity of this figure is debated; some scholars claim it is an ancestral figure while other believe it is Shield Jaguar II or perhaps even Lady Xook. This sacrifice mirrored the Maya story of creation, when the gods let their blood to create the human race. Ancient Maya limestone carving from Yaxchilan in modern Chiapas, Mexico, The lintel as displayed in the British Museum, Museo Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III, Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa, Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yaxchilan_Lintel_24&oldid=1109549671, Ethnographic objects in the British Museum, Artefacts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas in the British Museum, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 10 September 2022, at 14:44. Many of the exteriors had elaborate decorations, but it is the carved stone lintels above their doorways which have made this site famous. It suggests that everything is with respect to the Classic period. The scene represents a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchiln, Shield Jaguar the Great (681-742), and his wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook (Itzamnaaj Bahlen III). Direct link to green.rachael1001's post what is the size of struc, Posted 4 years ago. And its playing out in his full body of work. Direct link to Cassandra Bristol's post From what materials were , Posted a year ago. Laxtunich was a name that was concocted by Lamb. What do you mean by that? Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God, Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas, Teotihuacan: Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. HOUSTON: Well, we have a few examples of reliefs that have essentially transferred designs from pots. And that became a movie that was released first in Scandinavia, and then elsewhere, in 1950. There seems to be a very context-specific use of genre designs. How close are they to each other and how much of Guatemala are they? But each one of them is intensively looted. Its not as important as Yaxchilan. Highly skilled artisans were able to simulate the look of wood, imitating the nuances of a wooden structure and the wood grain in excavating cave temples from monolithic rock. In the section Lintels 25 and 26, only lintel 25 is described. And we have made, I think, a persuasive argument that the four lintels came from two separate buildings. It took place because this area, which had been almost unimaginably remote until the sixties, suddenly experienced an influx of people coming from other parts of Guatemala; individuals and families being forced out of land by oligarchs or by a land grab by a few very wealthy people up in the highlands of Guatemala. They allowed him, I think, to survive. Subtle differences in the three lintels suggest that the compositions were completed by two or three different artists. What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate? And I would be very surprised if the great painting at Bonampak wasnt made, ultimately, by painters coming from Yaxchilan. Theyre found in many, many palaces. And he needed a lost city as a selling point.. And by simply compiling or collecting as much information as he did, its led to great advances in Maya decipherment, especially in the last three to four decades. ", TAB-ya yu-xu-lu MO-CHAK-ki a-HIX?-la Find two or three examples in this story showing that Crane believes war personifies machines and dehumanizes people. 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. But now Dana was interested in movie rights as well. In the bowl are pieces of paper stained with her blood. But in Guatemala, in the place particularly where this lintel comes from, looting was actually suppressed by the conflicts between the guerillas and the Guatemalan army from a period of about 1997 and about fifteen years before. Structure 40 (above) sits in the South Acropolis, flanked by two other structures. Much has been written on the extraordinary carved lintels of Tikal. CUNO: So he and the Lambs and were interested in Laxtunich. These prestressed concrete lintels and blocks are components that are packed together and propped to form a suspended floor concrete slab. Several lintels over temple doors were composed of wooden beams and contained carved scenes of royal conquest and ritual. 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. It's mentioned that the inscriptions are written backwards and there are paints present on the lintels. 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. And I would be also shocked if Mayuy, the carver that weve been examining, didnt know the painters, didnt know the carvers at Bonampak. Event and date Emplym Glyph Name Glyph: The artists name are carved into the lintels Action: The blood is dripping onto some paper in a basket She is kneeling She is wearing: Ceremonial blood leading costume In zigzag pattern there is the axis mundi The cross is the intersection of the universe How many Olmec colossal heads have been discovered? The final sentence, which is not elevated like the other two, is an artists signature. He clearly needed local help to get to this place where the lintels were found. 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 In 1950, American adventurers Dana and Ginger Lamb traveled to the jungles of northern Guatemala looking for Maya ruins and a story they could turn into a movie. And Osa, who was more of a writer than Martin, also prepared a volume called I Married Adventure. And Ive sometimes wondered if that had to do with an attempt to heighten their claim to authenticity. Review the vocabulary list for "Uncle Marcos". At times, its just claptrap. Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of 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. What proximity do they share? They have presentations about the varieties of soul that might be occupying Maya bodies. Or at least it was the claim of that dynasty. One purpose or aim is purely intellectual. Hooper 2006 A large and complete example of a type of carved panel (pare or korupe) fitted above the doorway of a chief's house, and later above the doorway of elaborately carved meeting houses (which began to be built around 1840). But in point of fact, thats pretty unusual. Later sculpture from the Maya area follows radically different conventions. And that story is not an end at all, and hopefully, it will continue for some time to come. And this is a process that really, really intensified in the sixties and seventies, and even beyond. CUNO: Now, thats extremely interesting. And there were at least two in the ancient building that he explored back there in the spring of 1950. The rope falls on to an open codex. Lady Xoc is one of the most prominent and probably politically powerful women in the Maya civilization. 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. And its also about that time, or maybe a century or so before, that theres a lot of contact with the great city, the metropolis, of Teotihuacn, which is pretty close to what is now Mexico City. The reason for this is pretty obvious to me. Not necessarily of royal commissions, but ones that are undertaken by local nobility. 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. It isn't that much harder to learn the location of ancient art and architecture. and a number of its buildings stand to this day. Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. [6], Structural lintel over entrance, Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, The lintel stone at the Treasury of Atreus (external view), The lintel stone at the Treasury of Atreus (internal view), Structural lintel over the entry to main Buddhist shrine, Phimai historical park, Thailand, Shebna Inscription on a lintel of a tomb cave near Jerusalem, 8th/7th century BCE, Structural lintel with a lauburu and founders' names, above traditional Basque houses in Lower Navarre, Spain. HOUSTON: Yeah. And the carver that the local lord employed to create this piece, a person whose name we know, Mayuy, was almost certainly from an antagonistic dynasty to the north, a place called Piedras Negras, which is quite renowned in the history of Maya culture and civilization. Theyre like Swiss cheese, Jim. 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. The headdress also contains knotted cloth and vegetal elements, as well as shorter, spotted feathers. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. There were some yellows, as well, that are probably made out of some other kind of mineral. What kind of stories do the reliefs tell, and do they tell different stories than the vases tell? It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. Figure emerges from the mouth of a vision serpent (detail), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). We also know something about the work of this artist because we have monuments that span a period of about ten years or so. Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). HOUSTON: There are many, many different Mayan groups, thirty different languages or more, with varied histories. 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. 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. HOUSTON: The pigments involve a blue made of indigo thats taken from the Anil plant. A spouted chocolate vessel (1999.484.3) made of indurated limestone would have taken an enormous amount of carving and polishing with abrasives in order to obtain the delicate reliefs and sheen of the surface. There are flower tassels on the main part of the head band and a mosaic depiction of Tlaloc sprouting quetzal feathers. Accession rituals, for example, entailed the offering of dedicatory human sacrifices to mark the enthronement of a new ruling lord. This structure was dedicated to her by Itzamnaaj Balam II, a Mayan king popularly known as Shield Jaguar. These objects are often found in burials and other archaeological contexts, though other perishable materials, like the rope and the bark-paper strips seen on the lintel, are now lost. Ian tried hard to get to the bottom of that story, but he was never able to do so. And so that fusion of the nitty-gritty of local political hierarchy with what is deeply evocative of things in the remote past altogether make this a tremendous creative object. a bloodletting ritual Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. The Hoysala Empire era was an important period in the development of art and architecture in the South Indian Kannadiga culture. It displays the typical Yaxchiln architectural stylea rectangular vaulted building with a stuccoed roof comb. The language of the inscriptions is not necessarily always reflecting the local speech. In the Lintel 23, Communication with Ancestors, Blood Sacrifices and preparing the King for Battle is seen performing by Lady Xoc in the presence of the King Jaguar. At the Yaxchilan archaeological site there are fifty-eight lintels with decorative pieces spanning the doorways of major structures. Mayan Queen and Consort of Yaxchilan, Lady Xoc is considered to be the most powerful woman of the Maya Civilization. HOUSTON: They were a couple from California who first undertook, in the thirties, a canoe trip from their state all the way down to Panama. 20002023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But I think at least, there could be, wherever these monuments areand one is in a very securely known location, in a museum in Texaswe want to know, or at least to recognize, where they came from, so that that can be advertised and specified very precisely, because I do think transparency and honesty about these things are virtues, and that we can employ knowledge in their service. What an extraordinary title. What does it mean when someone says elaborate? Direct link to Julia Kopell's post it is possible, but consi, Posted 3 years ago. When used as verbs, elaborate means to . And that will never, never end. The queen also wears an elaborate headdress. And so these monuments are, to me anyway, notionally in a kind of slipstream of time. And that would be the kind of stone from which this lintel is made. Direct link to Kanga X (read bio)'s post How did they know how to , Posted a year ago. It is remembered today primarily for its Hindu temples' mandapa, lintels, and other architectural elements, such as at the Chennakesava Temple. Alfred Maudslay had the lintel cut from the ceiling of a side entrance in 1882 and shipped to Great Britain where it remains today in the British Museum of London. But to get back to Dana and Ginger, who were very much building on this tradition, in this book called A Quest for the Lost City, they were doing Enchanted Vagabonds 2.0. I mentioned that he was an amateur gentleman. Sculpture for the ancient Maya spans all media, from the miniature to the monumental, as artists gave shape to materials extracted from the landscape. 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. 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. Its about supporters of the king but its taken into an entirely different direction. Lintel 24 was found in its original context alongside Lintels 25 and 26 in Structure 23 of Yaxchilan. And you say that it thrives in conditions of relative stability. 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. 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