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Mesoamerica Comparative Table Aztecs America´s Photos Mayan Inca Civilizations Civilizaciones



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AZTEC 

MAYAS

INCAS

Architecture   
  • It is linked with acts and religious beliefs. 

 

  • They used as materials the figured stone and the adobe.

 

  • Their buildings were low with thick walls. 

 

  • They built Temples, Palaces and Houses.  

 

 
  • Their style is archilocked.

 

  • The facades were decorated with big stone ashlars.

 

  • In the external structure the pyramidal style prevails.

 

  • They possessed a great perron.

 

  • The decoration of these constructions was made at the beginning with stucco 

 
  • It was the but valuable inside the group of prehispanic groups. 

 

  • They built temples, strengths, palaces and tombs, besides wearing shoes, roads, bridges, aqueducts, irrigation channels, among other structures.   
Sculpture 
 
  • It is characterized to be rigid, hieratic and stylized.

 

  • It possesses a character magic-religious .

 

  • They present a group in cubic and monolithic ways. 

 

  • It is expressed in their two classic modalities: in round bundle and in relief. 

 
  • It has an ornamental character  symbolic.

 

  •  The style is angular, there is not roundness in ways. 

 

  • It has diverse modalities: sculpture in bundle, trails and reliefs
 
  • It didn't have bigger transcendency.
  • It is limited to some representations in bundle. 

 

  • Their forms remit to an angularity and petrification of the figure. 
 

 

Painting   
  • They used brilliant colors in their fresh paintings. 

  • It served as addition or decoration to many temples and palaces. 
 
  • It was at service of the architecture; that is to say, it served as decorating element of friezes. 
  • They used a rich coloring. 
  • They highlight the clear tones. 
 
  • It didn't have great development. 
  • They captured them in their ceramic pieces and in a type of painting mural achieved through molds.

 

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