Monday, April 25, 2011
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The splendor of Teotihuacan Mexican comes to Barcelona with over 400 pre-Columbian pieces
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The ancient city of Teotihuacan, just outside Mexico City, was for 800 years, the cultural, political and religious center of a powerful civilization splendor now reborn in Barcelona Caixafòrum with a major exhibition gathers more than 400 pieces, many of them never seen before. Sample 'Teotihuacan, City of the Gods'
is the most comprehensive ever on the Teotihuacan culture and Mexican exposure "most watched in the world", said at a press conference its maximum charge, the director of the Museum Mexico's National Anthropology, Diana Magaloni. Teotihuacan The sample placed on the timeline and in line with other pre-Columbian civilizations and discusses its architecture and urbanism, with magnificent examples as the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon - joined by the Calzada de los Muertos - the Palacio de los Jaguares Temple of Quetzalcoatl.
graphics and reconstructions allow us to understand the grandeur of civilization, to the seventh century AD, but also helps one of the most emblematic pieces of the sample, the Great Jaguar Xalla an outdoor sculptural façade made few years that retains much of its polychromy. "All the buildings were painted red were a rattled," said Magaloni, who has remarked that all the buildings in the city were raised as a bridge between the human and the divine, "but always outdoors because every place of worship had included a copy of the creation of world, so it should be in dialogue with the landscape.
The exhibition deals with the traditions and religious rituals of the city and their daily lives, and documents with multiple stone sculptures, statues worked with obsidian, pottery vessels, ornaments, jewelry, ritual masks and figures of mythological animals preferred in Mesoamerica, the jaguar and the serpent.
exposure now reaches Caixafòrum was originally commissioned by the archaeologist Felipe Solís, who died in 2009 and since then has passed by Mexico (Monterrey and Mexico City) and various European cities including Paris, Zurich, Berlin and Rome.
After they have seen more than 350,000 people, lay off their European tour after visiting Barcelona and Madrid
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