Architectural Model
100 BC-AD 300
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Architectural Model, 100 BC-AD 300. Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala. Serpentine; overall: 12 x 4.7 x 2.6 cm (4 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.187 The Mezcala style takes its name from a river in its homeland, the Guerrero region of western Mexico. The style is known for small-scale stone sculptures including architectural “models” characterized by sleek abstraction. Because comparisons to actual architecture in the Mezcala region are scarce, it is not known whether the models refer to temples, houses, or underground funerary structures. Mezcala architectural models reportedly come from burials, but few have been scientifically excavated.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- serpentine
- Medium
- serpentine
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12 x 4.7 x 2.6 cm (4 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1990.187
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Exhibitions
- The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 4 - November 29, 1992. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 79 (September, 1992.) cat. no. 40, p. 269, repr. fig. 40, p. 248.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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