The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City

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Patronized by royalty between the sixth and eighth centuries, the monuments of Guatemala’s ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras were carved by sculptors with remarkable skills and virtuosity. In combination patrons and sculptors created monumental imagery in a fashion unique inside the larger history of ancient Maya art by engaging public viewers through illustrations of ceremonies that specialize in circle of relatives and the female in royal agendas.

Flora Clancy’s introduction contextualizes her work with other studies and lays out her methodological framework. She then discusses the known monuments of the town sequentially by reigns. Individual rulers are characterized by a biography drawn from the hieroglyphic texts and the icons or imagery in their monuments are analyzed and discussed.

Although the monuments of Piedras Negras are acknowledged as social, political, and cultural productions, Clancy also treats them as artistic endeavors that at their very best operate on transcendent levels dissolving and overruling the contingencies of history and cultural differences.

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