The Mayan mythology gods and goddesses are filled with rich history, rituals, and mysteries — some of which we still uncover today — and some of which you can see in sculpture form when you ...

This exhibition depicts episodes in the life cycle of Mayan gods, from the moment of their birth to resplendent transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. Created by ...

arts entertainment Visual Arts. Life and death with the Maya gods at Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum The exhibition uses stone sculptures and painted ceramic vessels to retell stories of the gods.

Maya mythology is rich and complex — to date, its cast of divine protagonists, as represented through dense iconography, has not been the focus of an exhibition.

Maya Gods Descend on Manhattan. Centuries after the conquistadores, immortal kings and gods are reincarnated, so to speak, at the Met. ‘Monument 155,’ Yax Ahk as a captive impersonating the jaguar ...

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA The ancient ...

Ancient Maya Gods Get a Comeback at the Met Throne back, Usumacinta River area, Guatemala or Mexico, 600–909, limestone, W. 66 ½ in. (169 cm.). (Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.) ...

The upper half of a stone stela (an upright slab) created in 731 A. D. in Mexico. It dominates the entrance to the Kimbell show, "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art." ...

If many Maya gods look grotesque, even monstrous, at least one, the Maize God, does not. Patron of agriculture, sustainer of harvests, he’s a dreamboat, as buff as Adonis, as self-possessed as a ...

Two exhibitions—one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one at the Getty Center—gather Maya art and artifacts, including the oldest book of the Americas, to examine the awesome work of world ...

The ancient Maya god K’awiil, left, had an ax or torch in his forehead as well as a snake in place of his right leg. K5164 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard ...