Ancient realist statues from pre-Columbian South America
Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cmMoche portrait vessel, ca. 100—500 CE, Worcester Art Museumportrait vessel featuring paralysis, Larco Museum
Moche portrait vessels are ceramic vessels featuring highly individualized and naturalistic representations of human faces that are unique to the Moche culture of Peru.
These portrait vessels are among the few realistic portrayals of humans found in the Precolumbian Americas.[1]
^Donnan, Christopher B. "Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru. Table of Contents and Excerpt." University of Texas Press. 2003-2011 (retrieved 17 July 2011)
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