Seated Male Carrying Maize
1325–1521
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Seated Male Carrying Maize, 1325–1521. Central Mexico, Aztec style, 13th-16th century. Stone, pigment; overall: 31.1 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1949.555 Macuilxochitl is one of five gods of excess pleasure, and the punishment that follows.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- stone, pigment
- Dimensions
- Overall: 31.1 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 12 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1949.555
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art, The Imagination of Primitive Man, Man and His World, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, The Aztecs, The Aztec Empire, <em>The Imagination of Primitive Man</em>, Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (January 18- February 25, 1962).<br><br><em>Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, </em>Montreal, Canada (April 28- October 27, 1967).<br><br><em>Azteca-Mexica</em>, Madrid, Spain (1992).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
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