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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1971. — 324 p. — ISBN-0-87099-017-9 The course of pre-Hispanic or, as it is frequently called, pre-Columbian art, has come full circle in our own twentieth century. It amazed the Spanish conquistadors four hundred fifty years ago, and, when first seen by European audiences, it evoked the spontaneous admiration and extravagant praise of such Renaissance figures as Dürer, Cellini, and Peter Martyr, an Italian cleric who wrote the first history of the New World. But all too soon it lapsed as art in Europe, to continue there merely as exotica in some princeling's Wunderkammer and still later in museums narrowly confined to ethnology and anthropology. It is only in the United States that this art has been included in the collections of the most significant fine-arts museums and begun to be recognized by a few graduate schools of art and art history in our universities—a twentieth-century development of fairly limited acceptance. We at the Metropolitan are now proud to present it with other great art of the world. Like the men of the Renaissance, the founding fathers of this Museum paid high tribute to the ancient art of the New World, which they

Who reads Before Cortés. Sculpture of Middle America?

Author

Easby Elizabeth, Scott John.

Publisher

The Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society New York Graphic Society

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870990175

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Arts