664–729) ruled the urban center of Yok’ib, on the modern-day border between Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico, for more than four decades. The powerful king K’inich Yo’nal Ahk II (ca. Lent by the Republic of Guatemala (L.1970.78) Unrecorded Maya artists, Yok’ib (Piedras Negras, Guatemala). Portrait of a seated ruler receiving a noble (Stela 5). As part of the long-term collaboration, two additional works from the Republic of Guatemala will be treated by The Met's conservation team alongside conservators from Guatemala. Slated to open in fall 2022 and organized with the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, it will highlight Maya visual narratives featuring a cast of sacred beings who personified elements of the cosmos, nature, and agriculture. ![]() ![]() The installation also serves as a preview of the upcoming exhibition Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art. Rockefeller Wing is scheduled to reopen in 2024. Visitors will be able to encounter the representations of two powerful Indigenous American rulers while the Museum’s galleries for ancient American art undergo a transformative reenvisioning. This effort foregrounds the long-term collaboration between the The Met and the Republic of Guatemala to display masterpieces of Maya relief sculpture in New York. Ī new installation of two stelae opening on September 2, 2021, in the Great Hall features images of two great ancient Maya rulers gazing over crowds of contemporary museum goers, just as they would have originally observed public life in grand plazas. Known in the ancient script as tuun or lakam tuun, meaning “stone” or “great stone,” stelae embody layered meanings: they physically mark sacred space, represent monumental versions of ceremonial axes or blades, and convey the conceptual radiance of stones extracted from the powerful earth. ![]() These historic accounts record the passage of time and the biographies of powerful people and deities. Such majestic images of powerful kings and queens who ruled over city-states in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador also contain hieroglyphic texts. Artists in first-millennium Maya royal courts created enduring, life-sized portraits of their patrons on freestanding stone monuments known as stelae.
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