“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Nov. 21, draws on recent archaeological finds to assemble nearly 100 artworks from the ...

The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience ... are powerful nighttime hunters in the Maya area, and therefore jaguar gods and goddesses all displayed an aggressive, warlike personality.

Art of the ancient Maya is inextricably linked with the ... queens of classic Maya cities were quite intimate with the gods and goddesses,” Chinchilla said. “They were like their companions.” ...

Goddess Ix Chel is also depicted as "Lady Rainbow" in many of her pictographic appearances in Maya art. The creator god Hunab Ku was a major point of contention in scholarly debates about the Maya ...

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art is at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, through Sept. 3. Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fridays noon to 8 p.m ...

Sections explore Maya creation myths, the solar gods and the gods of night ... including a lunar goddess. “Much of my own research on Maya art and religion builds on Mike’s work,” Chinchilla ...

All at Dartmouth A superb show on art and divinity educates and thrills. Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, the new exhibition at the Met, isn’t strictly an art show, though we can ...

The sprawling city was home to some of the most important Mayan ceremonial sites, and it is remembered as one of the “high points of Mayan art and ... to the god and goddess of abundance ...

He then becomes the god Itzamna , the important sky deity, as he leans aggressively toward his wife, or wife-goddess ... For those who think of Mayan art as linear and two-dimensional, these ...