Sujet
Seated Figure Wearing a Skin, 600-1000. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Seated Figure Wearing a Skin, 600-1000. This type of image-showing a human clothed in a sacrificial victim?s skin, visible around the mouth and wrists-is one of the most awesome created by Mesoamerican artists. The figure represents the deity Xipe Totec or a human impersonator. Among the later Aztecs, Xipe was associated with fertility, rain, and renewal. Perhaps the wearer, upon shedding the skin, was conceived as a sprout emerging from a withered husk. Xipe also had military connections.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G03_375
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,1Mo (2,5Mo) / 29,7cm x 42,3cm / 3502 x 5000 (300dpi)