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Fine Arts 246y. Gothic Tomb Sculpture and Courtly Imagery: A Walk With Madness, Love, and Death...
...heroes, such as "Iron" Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB, and Mikhail Kalinin, an early Bolshevik who once authorized the death penalty for children as young as 12, have been disdainfully torn down. Gone too are the metronomic boot clicks of the goose-stepping guards outside Lenin's tomb, who once immutably marked off the minutes and hours of the Soviet state. Remarked a Russian father as his family paid a visit to the mausoleum: "They used to stand for hours in line here." Now virtually no one comes...
Plunderers seeking gold were the first to find the shining key that would unlock a door to the past. In 1987 a local looter stumbled upon a royal tomb deep inside an adobe-brick pyramid near the village of Sipan in the Lambayeque River valley of Peru's northern coastal plain. The find was pillaged, and many artifacts from it soon began showing up on the international market for stolen art. Fortunately, three other tombs that have since been discovered in the pyramid were protected and excavated under the eye of an expert. As a result, a team of workers...
...frenzy that followed the original looting of the tombs seven years ago seemed like footage from an Indiana Jones movie. International collectors and dealers in antiquities joined huaqueros, the Peruvian term for grave robbers, in a rush for Sipan gold. During raids, police were able to confiscate some stolen material, and one huaquero was killed. Then, with the digging site secured and under guard, Alva and a team of archaeologists and workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing...
Duplicates of animals on Moche pottery and murals, anthropomorphized spiders, crabs and owls appeared on tomb artifacts. They embody real people whose ceremonial roles have those creatures' characteristics. In Moche drawings, for instance, a strikingly arachnoid figure, dubbed the Decapitator by archaeologists, clasps a crescent-bladed knife in one hand and a severed head in the other. The supreme example of Moche craftsmanship was found atop the royal corpse in Tomb 3, oldest of the chambers: on each of 10 gold beads is a spider with a human face etched on its back. "The Moche communicated very effectively through their...