Sentences with phrase «stelae make»

Copan in Honduras is not as grand or imposing as Caracol, but it's beautiful decorated buildings and sculptures, especially the enormous carved stelae make it a must see Mayan site.

Certainly to have that much stelae makes Nim Li Punit an important player in the social and political landscape of the ancient Maya.

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The discovery, in the year 1901 - 1902, of a black diorite stele covered with column upon column of cuneiform characters, was an epoch - making event in the study of ancient Babylonia.

These short, muscular built, red - skinned Indians built great temples, made astonishing artifacts, tools and pottery, carved their history on slabs of stelae and made scholastic achievements that forever changed the world.

There are a large number of stelae and stone carved altars at this site, making it an attraction that is well worth exploring.

Barbara Chase - Riboud makes it hard to say whether one is dealing with Pop Art or abstraction, in a stele sculpted as if draped in black fabric.

Whether investigating the phenomenon of what she dubs «Turbo Sculpture» — monumental statues of American celebrities and movie characters like Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp, and Rocky Balboa, that have been erected across the former Yugoslavia — or constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre - and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into a rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, Domanović addresses the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history through conviviality and denial.

«This stele has a modern Modigliani / Picasso feel about it and people are amazed when I tell them it is 2,500 years old as it reminds them of something that was made 80 years ago».

Moroles has strong representation in Dallas which include commissions by the Belo Corporation, Stele Gateway, 1995, made with Fredericksburg granite; the Latino Cultural Center, Granite Weaving, 2001 made with Dakota Mahogany Granite; and three works installed at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The exceptionally diverse complete works include sculptures made of different materials: light - stelae, light - rotors, light - reliefs and light - cubes.