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Head from a Building's Façade
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About this work
The Maya often lavishly decorated the exteriors of buildings, transforming them into elaborate sculptural works in their own right. This sensitively modeled head, made from fragile stucco, would have been affixed to the façade of a palace or temple via the tenon (projection) at the back of the head. The rest of the body may have been modeled separately.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHead from a Building's Façade, 250–900 CE. Mexico, Campeche, Maya style (250-900). Stucco, paint; overall: 33.2 x 17.5 x 29.7 cm (13 1/16 x 6 7/8 x 11 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.183
