Pre Columbian Art

Including creations by the mayans aztecs incas and native north americans pre columbian art is a broad category that encompasses the art of indigenous people of north central and south america and the caribbean prior to the arrival of the spanish at the beginning of the 16th century.

Pre columbian art.

Spanning approximately 3000 years vmfa s pre columbian collection includes over 200 ceramic vessels textiles sculptures and metalwork objects from meso central and south america. Objects include ceremonial and funerary items for the elite as well as utilitarian and specialised items. An important teotihuacan statue pre classic circa 300 bc 300 ad. The general term andean civilisations encompasses the many cultural groups that inhabited the andean mountain range and had a common worship and technology.

The pre columbian art collection was donated by georgios gontikas and consists of objects belonging to the andean civilisations of south america. Height 16 in 42 9 cm. Pre columbian art encompasses the artefacts created by the indigenous peoples from the second millennium bc to the time of the arrival of christopher columbus in 1492 when the existing cultures were conquered by the europeans. Sotheby s has sold important pre columbian art from many significant private collections and institutions most recently from the saul and marsha stanoff collection and the albright knox art gallery.

Stools were important symbols of rank among the pre columbian societies of central america northern south america and the caribbean. Refers to the architecture artand craftsof the native peoples of north central and south america and the islands of the caribbean c 13 000 bce 1500 ce up to the time period marked by the arrival of. 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.