Humanities 100, Coastline College

1. Aztec. Coatlicue.
Fifteenth century. Basalt. Height: 8' 3".
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. [Fig. 9.1]

2. Aztec. The Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui, from the Sacred Precinct,
Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlán.
ca. 1469. Stone. Diameter: 10' 10".
Museo Templo Mayor, Mexico City. [Fig. 9.2]

3. Diego de Durán. History of the Indies of New Spain: Aztecs confront the Spaniards.
1581.
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. [Fig. 9.3]

4. Diego de Durán. History of the Indies of New Spain:
The Spanish massacre Aztec nobles in the temple courtyard.
1581.
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. [Fig. 9.4]

5. Plan of Tenochtitlán, from Cortés’s first letter to the King of Spain.
1521.
[Fig. 9.5]

6. Map: World Exploration, 1486-1611.
[Fig. Map 9.1]

7. Olmec. Colossal head, Mexico, Olmec culture.
900-500 BCE. Balsalt. Height: 7' 5".
La Venta Park, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. [Fig. 9.6]

8. Teotihuacán. Teotihuacán, Mexico, seen from the Pyramid of the Moon, looking south
down the Avenue of the Dead, the Pyramid of the Sun at the left.
ca. 350-650 CE.
[Fig. 9.7]

9. Teotihuacán. The Pyramid of the Moon, looking north up the Avenue of the Dead.
ca. 350-650 CE.
[Fig. 9.8]

10. Mayan. Madrid Codex, leaves 13–16 (of 56 total).
ca. 1400. Amatl paper, painted, screenfolded.
Museo de América, Madrid. [Fig. 9.9]

11. Mayan. “Palace” (foreground) and Temple of Inscriptions (tomb pyramid of Lord Pakal),
Palenque, Mexico.
600-900 CE.
[Fig. 9.10]

12. Inca. Inca stone wall of the Coricancha beneath a Dominican monastery, Cuzco, Peru.
[Fig. 9.11]

13. Ife Culture, Nigeria. Head of an Oni (King).
ca. thirteenth century. Brass. 11-7/16".
Museum of Ife Antiquities, Ife, Nigeria. [Fig. 9.12]

14. Map: Sub-Saharan West Africa, 1200-1700.
[Fig. Map 9.2]

15. Yoruba Culture, Nigeria. Ade, or beaded crown.
Late twentieth century. Beadwork. Height: 6' 1-1/4".
© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 9.13]

16. Benin Culture, Nigeria. Benin City as it appeared to an unknown British officer in 1891.
1891. Drawing.
[Fig. 9.14]

17. Benin Culture, Nigeria. Head of an Oba. Edo, Court of Benin.
ca. 1550. Brass. 9-1/4" x 9-5/8" x 9".
Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 9.15]

18. Map: Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1870.
[Fig. Map 9.3]

19. Benin (Nigeria). Mask of an iyoba (queen mother), probably Idia.
ca. 1550. Ivory, iron, copper. Height: 9-3/8".
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial
Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972 (1978.412.323). [Fig. 9.16]

20. Benin (Nigeria). Symbol of a coiled mudfish (drawing). Found throughout the art of
Benin and in the tiara worn by the iyoba in Fig. 18.7.
[Fig. 9.17]

21. Benin (Nigeria). Portuguese Warrior Surrounded by Manillas.
Sixteenth century. Bronze.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. [Fig. 9.18]

22. Kingdom of the Kongo. Mpungi, an ivory horn.
Collected before 1553. Ivory.
Museo degli Argenti, Florence. [Fig. 9.19]

23. Manohar, attributed to. Jahangir in Darbar. India, Mughal period. Northern India.
ca. 1620. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. 13-3/4" x 7-7/8".
Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund 14.654.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Fig. 9.20]

24. Bichitr. Jahangir Seated on an Allegorical Throne, from the Leningrad Album of Bichitr.
ca. 1625. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper. 10" x 7-1/8".
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (42.15V). [Fig. 9.21]

25. Mogul India. Taj Mahal, Agra, India, built by Shah Jahan.
ca. 1632-48.
[Fig. 9.22]

26. Mogul India. Taj Mahal, Agra, India, built by Shah Jahan: Plan.
ca. 1632-48.
[Fig. 9.23]

27. Chinese. Plan: the Tang capital of Chang’an, China (black-and-white drawing).
Tang dynasty, ca. 600 CE.
[Fig. 9.24]

28. Chinese character for "mountain".
Ink on paper.
[Fig. 9-CL.1]

29. Guo Xi. Early Spring. Hanging scroll. Detail, center right section.
Song dynasty, 1072. Ink, slight color on silk.
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [Fig. 9-CL.2]

30. Guo Xi. Early Spring. Hanging scroll. Detail, lower section.
Song dynasty, 1072. Ink, slight color on silk.
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [Fig. 9-CL.3]

31. Guo Xi. Early Spring. Hanging scroll.
Song dynasty, 1072. Ink, slight color on silk. Length: 5'.
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. [Fig. 9-CL.4]

32. Cheng Sixiao. Ink Orchids.
Yuan dynasty, 1306. Ink on paper. 10-1/8" x 16-3/4".
Municipal Museum of Fine Art, Osaka, Japan. [Fig. 9.25]

33. Ming dynasty, China. The Forbidden City, Beijing: The Hall of Supreme Harmony.
1368-1644; rebuilt 18th century. Height: 115'.
[Fig. 9.26]

34. Yin Hong. Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks. Hanging scroll. Ming dynasty, China.
ca. late fifteenth-early sixteenth century. Ink and color on silk. 7' 10-1/2" x 6' 5".
© The Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 74.31. [Fig. 9.27]

35. Shen Zhou. Poet on a Mountaintop. Leaf from an album of landscapes mounted as part
of a handscroll. Ming dynasty, China.
ca. 1500. Ink and color on paper. 15-1/4" x 23-3/4".
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. [Fig. 9.28]

36. Xuande period, Ming dynasty, China.
Pair of porcelain vases with cobalt blue underglaze.
1426-35.
[Fig. 9.29]

37. Map: Japan.
[Fig. Map 9.4]

38. Kosho. Kuya Preaching.
Kamakura Japan, before 1207. Painted wood, crystal inlaid eyes. Height: 46-1/2".
Rokuhara Mitsu-ji, Kyoto, Japan. [Fig. 9.30]

39. Kamakura Japan. Scrolls of Events of the Heiji Period:
Detail, Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace (handscroll).
Late thirteenth century. Ink and color on paper. 16-1/4" x 275-1/2".
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Reproduced with permission. © 2011 Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. All Rights Reserved. Fenollosa-Weld Collection (11.4000). [Fig. 9.31]

40. Muromachi Japan. Kinkakuji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion), Rokuonji, Kyoto, Japan.
Rebuilt in 1964 after the original of the 1390s. [Fig. 9.32]

41. Soami, attributed to. Garden of the Daisen-in of Daitokuji, Kyoto. Muromachi Japan.
ca. 1510-25.
[Fig. 9.33]

42. Momoyama Japan. Himeji Castle, Hyogo prefecture, near Osaka, Japan.
1581; enlarged 1601-9.
[Fig. 9.34]

43. School of Kano. Namban six-panel screen.
1593-1600.
Kobe City Museum of Namban Art, Japan. [Fig. 9.35]

44. Nam June Paik. TV Buddha.
1974. Video installation with statue.
Collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. [Fig. 9.36]