While Moche art as a whole is very much independent of the Chavín style, many recurring motifs found across Moche art, including the metalwork, also seem to have their roots in Chavín culture. Moche art continues the tradition of anthropomorphic figures as well as characters with prominent fangs, although the fangs are usually less pronounced ...

Moche Handle Spout Jug with Quadruped Motifs, 100 BCE–500 CE Jar in the Form of a Captive with Modeled Head, Rope Encircling Neck, and Tied Hands, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche ceramic art represents an infinite variety of subjects. Common zoomorphic figures include camelids, deer, felines, foxes, rodents, monkeys, bats, sea lions, as well as a wide array of birds, fish, shells, arachnids, and reptiles. These animals are represented realistically, hybridized, or anthropomorphized (82.1.29).

Finely wrought pectorals (chest ornaments) have been excavated at Moche sites, and Moche ceramic vessels depict dignitaries wearing such collars. These examples are made from Spondylus shells, a rare material from tropical waters off the coast of northern Peru and Ecuador, and from turquoise, perhaps obtained as far away as what is now northern ...

2020年10月26日 · Dominating the northern coast, the Moche came to be one of the most important groups in Peruvian history. Their artistic techniques, and in particular their ceramics, have garnered great international attention and acclaim. From intricately designed ceramics and temples, researchers have gained important insight into the lives of the Moche people.

In an extensive study of the corpus of some nine hundred known examples of portrait-head vessels, archaeologist Christopher Donnan has shown that their production was limited in time and space. They have been found only in the southern Moche region—south of the Pampa de Paiján, in the Chicama, Moche, and Virú valleys.

Chimú Culture, Chimor, Chimu. Artworks ... Antiquarian Society: Antique Arts and Crafts from Old Mexico, Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection ... Moche; Vessel with Abstract Motifs and a Modeled Head, 700–900 Tiwanaku; Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Image of a Warrior Bird, 100 BCE–500 CE Moche;

2024年12月23日 · The Moche were non-literate people who used their art as a means of communication. Artists of the Moche culture depicted narrative scenes on ceramic vessels. In addition, they painted murals expressing their daily life, religious beliefs, and mythologies.

2011年3月28日 · The earlier Moche tradition, which developed in the same territory, had the greatest artistic influence on Chimú. Moche elements in Chimú pottery include small modeled figures (such as monkeys on the spouts of stirrup spout bottles) and marine elements (such as crabs and Spondylus shells.

Chimú potters fired their vessels in an atmosphere of reduced oxygen to achieve a uniform black surface. This vessel was made by an artist of the Chimú Empire of Peru’s north coast. In the art of the Moche, an earlier culture in the region, the deer had complex symbolism related to ritual combat and the capture of prisoners.