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Pre-Columbian Art Museum

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Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Pre-Columbian Art Museum
Phone:
+51 84 233210

Address:
Plaza de las Nazarenas, Cusco, Peru

Pre-Columbian art refers to the visual arts of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, North, Central, and South Americas until the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and the time period marked by Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Pre-Columbian art thrived throughout the Americas from at least 13,000 BCE to the European conquests, and sometimes continued for a time afterwards. Many Pre-Columbian cultures did not have writing systems, so visual art expressed cosmologies, world views, religion, and philosophy of these cultures, as well as serving as mnemonic devices. During the period before and after European exploration and conquest of the Americas, indigenous native cultures produced a wide variety of visual arts, including painting on textiles, hides, rock and cave surfaces, bodies especially faces, ceramics, architectural features including interior murals, wood panels, and other available surfaces. For many of these cultures, the visual arts went beyond physical appearance and served as active extensions of their owners and indices of the divine. Artisans of the Ancient Americas drew upon a wide range of materials , creating objects that included the meanings held to be inherent to the materials. These cultures often derived value from the physical qualities, rather than the imagery, of artworks, prizing aural and tactile features, the quality of workmanship, and the rarity of materials. Various works of art have been discovered large distances from their location of production, indicating that many Pre-Columbian civilizations collected items from other cultures or previous cultures. Moreover, many societies used raw materials not available in the geographic location in which they were situated, suggesting difficulty of acquisition as a source of value. Unfortunately, many of the perishable surfaces, such as woven textiles, typically have not been preserved, but Precolumbian painting on ceramics, walls, and rocks have survived more frequently.
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