Donnan Christopher B Moche Ceramic Portraits

Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800.

Donnan christopher b moche ceramic portraits.

Donnan christopher b and donna mcclelland. Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished to portray though sometimes they presented full figures with realistic portrait faces. Donnan has traveled the world photographing moche artwork for purposes of publication recording both museum artifacts and private collections that would otherwise be unavailable to the public. Considered one of the world s foremost authorities on the moche he is the author of many books.

Its evolution and its artists. Most were probably broken while in use and their sherds simply. Iconography of the moche. Additional essays by hélène bernier.

Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished. Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1978. Donnan is an archaeologist. Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800.

Most of their settlements were located in a series of valleys whose rivers cut across the coastal plain carrying water from the mountains to the sea. Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of peru between ad 100 and 800. Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla. Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1999.

Considered one of the world s foremost experts on the moche he has studied this civilization for more than four decades combining the systematic analysis of moche art with numerous archaeological excavations in peru. Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla. Moche portraits from ancient peru christopher b. He has researched the moche civilization of ancient peru for more than fifty years conducting numerous quantify excavations of peruvian archaeological sites.

Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished. Donnan the moche the moche inhabited an arid coastal plain bordered on the east by the andean cordillera and on the west by the pacific ocean. Moche portraits from ancient peru by christopher b. Unraveling the mystery of the warrior priest national geographic october 1988 551 555.