Sculptured bottle Anthropomorphic representation Mochica Classic period, 1 - 800 AD Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco - Peru This personage, in an evidently crippled condition, expresses an immense dignity and motivates in the observer feelings diametrically opposed to compassion, but rather more akin to respect and esteem. The extreem realism is sustained not only by the capacity to represent the desired image, which has been endowed with a faintly hyratic posture, but in the adapted use of colours and details of decoration such as the tenuous small lizards that arise from the corners of the
This personage, in an evidently crippled condition, expresses an immense dignity and motivates in the observer feelings diametrically opposed to compassion, but rather more akin to respect and esteem. The extreem realism is sustained not only by the capacity to represent the desired image, which has been endowed with a faintly hyratic posture, but in the adapted use of colours and details of decoration such as the tenuous small lizards that arise from the corners of the eyes, the arrangement of the hair and the range of tonalities that represent clothes and attributes.
Size: 3175px × 4233px
Location: Cusco, Peru
Photo credit: © Stefano Ravera / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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