Before Cortes - Sculpture of Middle America (Art Ebook).pdf

Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, & J.F. Scott, "Before Cortés: Sculpture of Middle America"
Metropolitan/NY Graphic Society | 1970 | English | PDF | 322 pages | 75.46 Mb

The course of pre-Hispanic or, as it is frequently called, pre-Columbian art, has come full circle in our own twentieth century. It amazed the Spanish conquistadors four hundred fifty years ago, and, when first seen by European audiences, it evoked the spontaneous admiration and extravagant praise of such Renaissance figures as Dürer, Cellini, and Peter Martyr, an Italian cleric who wrote the first history of the New World. But all too soon it lapsed as art in Europe, to continue there merely as exotica in some princeling's Wunderkammer and still later in museums narrowly confined to ethnology and anthropology.