Goddess Mural Painting Tetitla apartment complex at Teotihuacan, Mexico, 650–750 CEA
Goddess Mural Painting Tetitla apartment complex at Teotihuacan, Mexico, 650–750 CEAs in most ancient Mesoamerican cities, Teotihuacan’s buildings were once stuccoed over and brightly painted. Elaborate murals covered the walls of it’s elite residential compounds and depicted deities, ritual activities, and processions of priests, warriors, and animals. The muralists eventually settled into a method of applying pigments to a smooth lime-plaster coated with clay. Afterwards they would polish the surface to a high sheen. Most had a restricted palette of varying tones of red (derived from the mineral hematite). Above the mural depicts an earth or nature goddess. Always shown with her face covered by a jade mask and dwarfed by her large feathered headdress, many scholars believe she is the city’s principal deity. (x) -- source link
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