Word: cortesian
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Eliot and Mrs. Brine's motive in being with Rivera was, of course, to get to know him and his work at first hand. In the process they underwent a thorough lecture course on mural painting and on pre-Cortesian sculpture. Rivera showed them hundreds of his sculptures, one by one, and stood for hours on end while he explained his archaeological theories. He also accompanied them on a trip to see his murals. After a long, silent examination of one of them Rivera turned and said: "I haven't seen this mural since I painted...
Before he dies, Rivera may well add sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses. After all his travels, however, Diego knows where home is. Happily fingering and musing over his pre-Cortesian sculptures, he looks like one of the statues himself-big-bellied, self-contained, benign, timeless...
...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...
...Chakolol there were three temples, one on the shore and the other two a mile or more inland. One of these has a frescoe with a serpent and a deer painted in a style like the Gro-Cortesian Codex and quite different from Tulum, Chichen Itza or Santa Rita. Paalmul had two temples on the shore and several more half a league inland. Two of them until recently had figures set on the altars. One of these is still in place but the hand is gone and the other has been taken away entirely. We found this evidence that...
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