Framing the portrait : towards an understanding of elite late classic Maya representation at Palenque, Mexico
This dissertation examines portraiture at Palenque during the Classic period. I propose that portraits communicated information about the identity of the sitter through the representation of the face and head. I argue that when picturing the same person, sculptors rendered particular facial features...
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| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/15972 |