Moche Decorated Ceramics - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBMoche ceramic art represents an infinite variety of subjects. Common zoomorphic figures include camelids, deer, felines, foxes, rodents, monkeys, bats, sea lions, as well as a wide array of birds, fish, shells, arachnids, and reptiles. These animals are represented realistically, hybridized, or anthropomorphized (82.1.29).
Moche Portrait Vessels - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBArtists of the Moche cultures excelled at the creation of “portrait vessels,” so-called for their striking apparent resemblance to specific individuals.
Art and Culture of Moche People | DailyArt Magazine
WEBNov 8, 2023 · Moche artisans created decorative objects to adorn the body. Such objects included necklaces, nose ornaments, earrings, bracelets, and headdresses. Many of these elaborate ornaments were discovered in the royal tombs of the Moche elite.
The Moche Civilization of Ancient Peru: Artisans ... - History Tools
WEBMay 26, 2024 · The most famous creations are highly realistic portrait head vessels, effigy pots, and containers decorated with complex scenes of mythology, warfare and daily life. Moche metalworkers exhibited great skill and creativity in fashioning objects from gold, silver, copper and tumbaga (gold-copper alloy).
Moche culture - Wikipedia
WEBTheir artifacts express their lives, with detailed scenes of hunting, fishing, fighting, sacrifice, sexual encounters, and elaborate ceremonies. The Moche are particularly noted for their elaborately painted ceramics, gold work, monumental constructions (huacas), and …
Mochica Ceramics: A Treasure of Pre-Columbian Art
WEBApr 19, 2024 · Mochica, or Moche, pottery is an exceptional testimony of the art that flourished on the American continent. This beautiful expression of Andean culture, and pre-Columbian in general, was developed in present-day Peru.
Disk with Figure | Moche | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBDisk with Figure. This magnificent silvered and gilded copper disk was produced by metal workers of the Moche culture on the North Coast of Peru. A gilded backing disk, cut from a larger sheet, supports a figure of a warrior under a double-headed serpent-like creature, which holds in each mouth a small crouching profile figure by the hair. All ...
The Art and Archaeology of the Moche - De Gruyter
WEBJun 3, 2009 · About this book. Renowned for their monumental architecture and rich visual culture, the Moche inhabited the north coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-800). Archaeological discoveries over the past century and the dissemination of Moche artifacts to museums around the world have …
Moche [ Mochica ] - Grove Art Online
WEBArchitectural details of temples, pyramids, and houses are all depicted in Moche art, as are features of clothing and adornment. The representations, both painted and modeled, are detailed and often demonstrate a remarkable fidelity to an observed reality.
WEBWhile Moche culture is best known for its elaborately modeled and decorated pottery, Moche artisans were equally innovative in metalwork and independently developed both depletion gilding (which removes other metals from gold alloy to create a pure surface) and electrochemical replacement plating.