![]() Some of the figures are richly attired whilst others are almost naked. Some chacmools were raised upon rectangular bases. The figure may be lying on its back or on its side and the abdomen can be sunken below the level of the chest and knees or at the same level. There is great variation among individual chacmools, with some possessing heads that are right-facing and others left-facing, and some with the heads facing upwards some examples have movable heads. The chacmool is a distinctive form of Mesoamerican sculpture representing a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, leaning on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its chest. The chacmool form of sculpture first appeared around the 9th century AD in the Valley of Mexico and the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the physical and supernatural realms, as intermediaries with the gods. Īztec chacmools bore water imagery and were associated with Tlaloc, the rain god. Chacmools were often associated with sacrificial stones or thrones. ![]() In an Aztec example, the receptacle is a cuauhxicalli (a stone bowl to receive sacrificed human hearts). These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacco, turkeys, feathers and incense. ![]() 1 (1956), Edith Sitwell gravestone, bronze, length 34.Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza displayed at the National Museum of AnthropologyĪ chacmool (also spelled chac-mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. Official website: Other artworks in churches by this artist:Ĭircular Altar (1972), travertine marble, 255cm, St Stephen Walbrook Madonna and Child (1948-49), Hornton stone, 122cm, St Mary's Barham Single Standing Figure (1981), travertine marble, height 246.5cm, Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban (on loan from Henry Moore Foundation) Mother and Child: Hood (1983), travertine marble, height 183cm, St Paul's Cathedral Head of King and Queen(1953), Corsham stone, height 35.5cm, St Andrew Much Hadham Hand Relief No. ![]() His body is interred in the Artists' Corner at St Paul's Cathedral. Before his death in 1986 he founded The Henry Moore Foundation to preserve his legacy as well as fund arts education and institutions. In 1948 Moore won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale, was a featured artists of the Festival of Britain in 1951 and participated in the legendary Documenta 1 in 1955. Moore produced many public commissions including at UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France and at the Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom. Post-war Moore was to become the most important sculptor in Britain and one of the most important and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. His drawings of evacuees sleeping in tube stations gained notoriety in the United States, leading to many commissions and exhibitions there. During the war he worked as a war artist mostly sketching the effects of the blitz. During this time he made lasting friendships and connections that influenced and shaped his future career. The close proximity of talent in Hampstead led to an exchange of ideas and influences as well as making it a stopping point for artists, designers, architects and intellectuals fleeing the coming war in continental Europe. In the 1930’s he moved to Hampstead and became part of the burgeoning creative community that included his colleague from college, sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Best known perhaps are his large-scale bronze undulating abstractions of the human form, many in a reclining position. ![]() The dual influences of non-western art as well as his collections of driftwood and other organic forms were to have a profound impact in creating his instantly recognizable and unique personal style. Chac Mools are Pre-Columbian stone sculptures of reclining figures with their heads upturned. In his twenties, Moore became interested in non-Western art, filling sketchbooks with drawings of South American and Pre-Colombian sculpture perhaps most tellingly of Chac Mool figures. Henry Moore (1898-1986, British) decided to become a sculptor at only eleven after hearing of Michelangelo's achievements. Part of the restoration and reordering of the church in the 1970s. ![]()
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