. Guide leaflet. HALL OF THE COLUMNS. MITLA, OAXACA This is one of the hirsest completely walled buildings in Central America. Note the ingenious mosaicof separate blocks of stone. After Charnay and VioUet le Due, 18(>2. templp: at xochicalco. morelos Another ornate example of Nahua architecture wherein the temple and platform are treated as aunit. The frieze falls into the Mixtec-Zapotec art style. After Totten. 1926 31 32 \Mi:i:i(AS Mr>FAM ci ide leaflet lVrIi;i]).s because of accidiiit of i)reserva-tion, but more probably because of in-creased light, in buildings of tliis late])eriod
. Guide leaflet. HALL OF THE COLUMNS. MITLA, OAXACA This is one of the hirsest completely walled buildings in Central America. Note the ingenious mosaicof separate blocks of stone. After Charnay and VioUet le Due, 18(>2. templp: at xochicalco. morelos Another ornate example of Nahua architecture wherein the temple and platform are treated as aunit. The frieze falls into the Mixtec-Zapotec art style. After Totten. 1926 31 32 \Mi:i:i(AS Mr>FAM ci ide leaflet lVrIi;i]).s because of accidiiit of i)reserva-tion, but more probably because of in-creased light, in buildings of tliis late])eriod we begin to find interior oniaiiicntsuch as frescoes and carved and plasteredeoluinns. Unless designs could be seen,there would be no jDurpose in creatingthem, for the inner apartments of a simplecollection of ranked rooms must have beenalmost pitch black. The essential snccess of Maya architec-ture from the dramatic point of view wasthe invention of a monolithic type of con-struction involving the false arch, whichrendered it possible to combine mass,height, and field for ornament, with innerspace for the performance of cult prac-tice. On the highlands of Mexico thebasis of construction was much sim]) false
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