Donnan Christopher B Moche Ceramic Portraits

Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished.

Donnan christopher b moche ceramic portraits.

Donnan the moche the moche inhabited an arid coastal plain bordered on the east by the andean cordillera and on the west by the pacific ocean. Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1999. Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla. Donnan christopher b and donna mcclelland.

Most of their settlements were located in a series of valleys whose rivers cut across the coastal plain carrying water from the mountains to the sea. Iconography of the moche. Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla. Moche portraits from ancient peru christopher b.

Although the moche people had no writing system they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities in beautifully sculpted and painted ceramic vessels colorful wall murals sumptuous textiles and superbly crafted objects of gold silver and copper. Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1978. Additional essays by hélène bernier. Its evolution and its artists.

Considered one of the world s foremost experts on the moche he has studied this civilization for more than four decades combining the systematic analysis of moche art with numerous archaeological excavations in peru. Unraveling the mystery of the warrior priest national geographic october 1988 551 555. Donnan has traveled the world photographing moche artwork for purposes of publication recording both museum artifacts and private collections that would otherwise be unavailable to the public. He has researched the moche civilization of ancient peru for more than fifty years conducting numerous quantify excavations of peruvian archaeological sites.

It is likely that only a small percentage of the ceramic portraits produced by the moche were ultimately put in graves. Most were probably broken while in use and their sherds simply. Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800. Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished.

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of peru between ad 100 and 800. Considered one of the world s foremost authorities on the moche he is the author of many books. Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800. Moche art of peru.