Pre Columbian Art

Sotheby s has sold important pre columbian art from many significant private collections and institutions most recently from the saul and marsha stanoff collection and the albright knox art gallery.

Pre columbian art.

Including creations by the mayans aztecs incas and native north americans pre columbian art is a broad category that encompasses the art of indigenous people of north central and south america and the caribbean prior to the arrival of the spanish at the beginning of the 16th century. The general term andean civilisations encompasses the many cultural groups that inhabited the andean mountain range and had a common worship and technology. Objects include ceremonial and funerary items for the elite as well as utilitarian and specialised items. Pre columbian art refers to the visual arts of indigenous peoples of the caribbean north central and south americas until the late 15th and early 16th centuries and the time period marked by christopher columbus arrival in the americas.

One of the most impressive known examples of colombian ceramic art is a seated male figure from the popayán region of west central colombia. Refers to the architecture artand craftsof the native peoples of north central and south america and the islands of the caribbean c 13 000 bce 1500 ce up to the time period marked by the arrival of. Height 16 in 42 9 cm. The pre columbian art collection was donated by georgios gontikas and consists of objects belonging to the andean civilisations of south america.

Pre columbian art encompasses the artefacts created by the indigenous peoples from the second millennium bc to the time of the arrival of christopher columbus in 1492 when the existing cultures were conquered by the europeans. Pre columbian definition of or relating to the americas before the arrival of columbus. Including the creations of the maya the aztecs the inca and native north americans pre columbian art is a broad category that encompasses the art of indigenous people of north central and south america and the caribbean prior to the arrival of the spanish at the beginning of the 16th century.