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A chacmool is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. Wikipedia
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In Aztec examples, the receptacle is a cuauhxicalli (a stone bowl to receive sacrificed human hearts). Chacmools were often associated with sacrificial stones ...
Jan 26, 2019 · A Chac Mool is a very specific type of Mesoamerican statue associated with ancient cultures such as the Aztecs and Maya.
The figure is adorned with a headdress, earflares, bracelets, and anklets, all likely depicted as if they were made of jade. The bowl served as a receptacle for ...
However, in Miller's interpretation, from her popular book, The Art of Mesoamerica from Olmec to Aztec (1986:175), this Chacmool represents “a fallen warrior, ...
A chacmool excavated from the Aztec Templo Mayor in Mexico City in the early 1980s was found fully polychromed. At Tula and Chiche'n Itza', the chacmool was ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Aztec chacmools bore water imagery and were associated with Tlaloc, the rain god. Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the ...
Sculpture representing a Chac Mool in its characteristic position, reclining in a pose difficult to keep, with bent arm and legs and the head completely tu.
…plaster cast of a limestone Chac Mool—a Mayan representation of the rain spirit, depicted as a male reclining figure with its knees drawn up together, its ...
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Artwork ; Artist: Aztec (16th century ) ; Art style: Miscellaneous ; Title: Chacmool (c.1500) ; Size: 108 x 74 cm (42,4 x 29,1 inches) ; Picture number: BMX198387.
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The legendary chac mool sculpture, found in front of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, is masterfully replicated by Mexican artisan Angel Cerón.