Lives of the Gods

Divinity in Maya Art

Joanne Pillsbury, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James A. Doyle , Iyaxel Cojti Ren

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
12 January 2023

This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period

Lives of the Gods explores how ancient Maya peoples gave bodily form to the divine and explains the cosmological underpinnings of some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization. Focusing on the Classic period (250–900 CE), the publication reveals how artists and scribes used diverse media—from the monumental to the miniature—to construct an aesthetic and a rhetoric of a powerful universe, as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian pantheons. In thematic chapters, the authors examine the mythical contents of Maya art, the relationship of divine lives with the landscape, the centrality of cycles associated with day and night, and the importance of maize as the ideal metaphor for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Other chapters discuss the divine in the daily lives of Maya kings and queens, the Maya’s close and personal dealings with protective patron deities, and the transmission of their traditions and worldview throughout the colonial period and into contemporary Maya communities.

Contributions by: Iyaxel Cojti Ren, Caitlin C. Earley
Edited by: Joanne Pillsbury, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James A. Doyle
Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9781588397317
ISBN 10: 1588397319
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 12 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joanne Pillsbury is Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos is associate professor of anthropology at Yale University and curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. James A. Doyle is associate research professor and director of the Matson Museum of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, State College.