Cacti Mochica Classic period, 1 - 800 AD Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco - Peru The sculptural skill and the proclivity to refinement of the moche artist was no obstacle for grace and naivete of composition. The artist seems almost to delight in the modelling of this beautiful cacti, delicately represented, as mute witnesses of geographic reality of that desert that the moche people managed to transform and render useful. In the hands of the potter, the clay acquires smooth forms and comes near to representing reality, achieving that sensation of volume, proportion and realism that every mo

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The sculptural skill and the proclivity to refinement of the moche artist was no obstacle for grace and naivete of composition. The artist seems almost to delight in the modelling of this beautiful cacti, delicately represented, as mute witnesses of geographic reality of that desert that the moche people managed to transform and render useful. In the hands of the potter, the clay acquires smooth forms and comes near to representing reality, achieving that sensation of volume, proportion and realism that every mochica creation seems to lavishly possess.

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Location: Cusco, Peru
Photo credit: © Stefano Ravera / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: archaeological, archaeology, archeological, archeology, art, artifact, artifacts, arts--crafts, crafts, cusco, cuzco, hand-, hand-crafted, handmade, history, mochica, peru, peruvian, pottery, prehispanic, sculpture