#mesoamerica

[memories-of-ancients]

Earthenware figurine of a dog, Nayarit culture, Mexico, 300 BC-400 AD

from The San Antonio Museum of Art

[bastrod]

Totocalli

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mirror and Base.

Place of origin: Mexico, Veracruz

Date: A.D. 200–500

Medium: Stone; Slate, hematite, shell, and iron oxide pigment.

[theinternetarchive]

miniature mask of greenstone; overall: 6.9 x 6.2 cm; mesoamerica, mexico, olmec, c. 900-400 b.c.

[lionofchaeronea]

Ceremonial mask, made by an artist of the Olmec civilization in present-day southern Mexico between 900 and 300 BCE. The artist sculpted the mask from jadeite, carved lines in its surface, and highlighted them with cinnabar, perhaps to imitate facial tattooing. Among these decorations is the face of a supernatural human-jaguar hybrid creature above the mask's right eye.

Now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Photo credit: MIA | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

[shi-gu]

Landscapes and Backgrounds 🏞

The most time-consuming, but also among the most satisfying to make. A mountain Ayauhcalli shrine, the Anahuac (Mexico Basin), and a Oaxacan tianguis (market).

[sealhaus]

Brothers!

[exiled-prince]

ONYX EQUINOX ART BOOK FROM ALLTHEANIME

Recently, UK anime distributor "alltheanime" released a special edition blu-ray of Onyx Equinox and it included a small art book with some familiar designs we've seen in the past plus some never before seen. I couldn't fit all the pages into a single post, so I'll link the last remaining in the next post. Link to remaining pages here