Frenchman Jean-Frédéric Waldeck rendered Mayan reliefs in a highly imaginative manner, making him a sort of “Orientalist of the New World”, as one art critic has called him. Rather than simply copy the statuary and friezes of the stone-age Central Americans, Waldeck delighted in idealizing what he saw in an oddly Neoclassicist style, as here in his Mayan Zodiac.
Mayan Zodiac, c.1835, Rendered in Bold ChiaroscuroJean-Frédéric Waldeck Czech, active in Mexico (1766 - 1875) |
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Frenchman Jean-Frédéric Waldeck rendered Mayan reliefs in a highly imaginative manner, making him a sort of “Orientalist of the New World”, as one art critic has called him. Rather than simply copy the statuary and friezes of the stone-age Central Americans, Waldeck delighted in idealizing what he saw in an oddly Neoclassicist style, as here in his Mayan Zodiac. |
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