Considered one of the world s foremost authorities on the moche he is the author of many books.
Donnan christopher b moche ceramic portraits.
Moche portraits from ancient peru by christopher b.
Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished to portray though sometimes they presented full figures with realistic portrait faces.
Most of their settlements were located in a series of valleys whose rivers cut across the coastal plain carrying water from the mountains to the sea.
Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1978.
Although the moche people had no writing system they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities in beautifully sculpted and painted ceramic vessels colorful wall murals sumptuous textiles and superbly crafted objects of gold silver and copper.
Most were probably broken while in use and their sherds simply.
Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla.
Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished.
Iconography of the moche.
Donnan the moche the moche inhabited an arid coastal plain bordered on the east by the andean cordillera and on the west by the pacific ocean.
Donnan is an archaeologist.
It is likely that only a small percentage of the ceramic portraits produced by the moche were ultimately put in graves.
Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1999.
Moche portraits from ancient peru christopher b.
Donnan has traveled the world photographing moche artwork for purposes of publication recording both museum artifacts and private collections that would otherwise be unavailable to the public.
Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800.
Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla.
Additional essays by hélène bernier.
Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800.
Unraveling the mystery of the warrior priest national geographic october 1988 551 555.
Its evolution and its artists.
Moche art of peru.
Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished.
Donnan christopher b and donna mcclelland.
