The Seeds of Divinity

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Jan 19 2018 - Aug 31 2018

Pre-Columbian civilizations in Central America used the human body as a prism for understanding and depicting the supernatural. Artworks from the era portray a human head emerging from the jaws of a monster, the transformation of bodies into divine beings, and passage into the afterlife. Objects from five Mesoamerican civilizations—Maya, Teotihuacán, Nayarit, Zapotec, and Aztec—explore the spiritual and the sacred, plumbing the mutable line between humans, gods, and animals.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

  • Various Media
  • Latin American
  • Sacred
  • Various artists

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