Pre-Columbian Art / Jalisco Sculpture of a Seated Woman, 300 BCE - 300 CE
Terracotta
PF.0964
The more time we spend with these beautifully stylized figures, the more we realize that they possess very distinct personalities. It is as if the life and emotions of the...
The more time we spend with these beautifully stylized figures, the more we realize that they possess very distinct personalities. It is as if the life and emotions of the person who offered them as a grave gift two millenia ago were continuing to inhabit the clay, as if each sculpture had a unique and vivid story to tell about the past.