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April 3, 2016 by Max Distro LLC

Moche Culture Portrait Vessels (1-800 CE). Larco Museum, Peru

Moche Culture Portrait Vessel (. Larco Museum, Peru

Moche Culture Portrait Vessels. Larco Museum, Peru

I was at the Larco Museum in Lima, Peru and saw these beautiful ceramics and pots, which inspired me to research this interesting and influential culture. The Moche civilization (alternatively, the Mochica culture, Early Chimu, Pre-Chimu, Proto-Chimu, etc.) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche and Trujillo, from about 100 AD to 800 AD, during the Regional Development Epoch. While this issue is the subject of some debate, many scholars contend that the Moche were not politically organized as a monolithic empire or state. Rather, they were likely a group of autonomous polities that shared a common elite culture, as seen in the rich iconography and monumental architecture that survive today. Moche history may be broadly divided into three periods: the emergence of the Moche culture in Early Moche (100–300 AD), its expansion and florescence during Middle Moche (300–600 AD), and the urban nucleation and subsequent collapse in Late Moche (500–750 AD). Moche portrait vessels are ceramic vessels featuring highly individualized and naturalistic representations of human faces that are unique to the Moche culture of Peru. These portrait vessels are some of the few realistic portrayals of humans found in the Precolumbian Americas.

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Filed Under: Archaeology, Museums, Native Americas Cultures, Peru Tagged With: Al Paec, Decapitator, Goddess Si, Huaco Retrato Mochica, Human Sacrifice, Larco Museum, Lima, Maya Culture, Mesoamerica, Moche Culture, Mochica Culture, Olmec Culture, Peru, Portrait Vessels, Rafael Larco Hoyle

March 12, 2016 by Max Distro LLC

Museo Larco Gardens, Lima Peru

Museo Larco, Lima Peru

Museo Larco, Lima Peru

The Larco Museum (Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera) is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building built over a 7th-century pre-Columbian pyramid. It showcases chronological galleries that provide a thorough overview of 4,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. It is well known for its gallery of pre-Columbian erotic pottery. Rafael Larco Hoyle (May 18, 1901 in Chicama Valley, Peru – 1966), raised at Chiclin, his family's estate, was sent to school in Maryland, USA, at the age of twelve. He later entered Cornell University to study agricultural engineering and by 1923 returned to Peru to work on the family's sugar cane plantation. Peruvian archaeology was in its infancy and Larco Hoyle realized many typologies were yet to be recognized. He set out to correct that and approached archaeological research academically. During the 1930s, he discovered many distinct Peruvian cultures such as Viru, Salinar, Cupisnique, and Lambayeque. In Lima, Larco purchased the Luna Cartland family house, built in 1700, to house his museum. The grounds of the museum are surrounded by beautiful gardens that won the prize for best gardens in Peru in January 2009.

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Filed Under: Peru, Plants and Gardens Tagged With: Blue Plumbago auriculata, Bougainvillea, Brugmansia pittieri, Cape Ivy, Coccoloba uvifera, Crassula ovata, Crusifix Orchid, Epidendrum ibaguense, Garden, Golden Angel's Trumpet, Ivy Leaf Geranium, Japanese Honeysuckle, Larco Museum, Lima, Lonicera japonica, Museo Larco, Pelargonium peltatum, Peru, Podranea ricasoliana, Rafael Larco Hoyle, Sea Grape, Senecio angulatus

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