Sculptures celebrating the human body, precious jewelry, animals from frogs to jaguars and depictions of deities are going on show in Berlin in an exhibition that offers a glimpse of centuries of Mayan art.
The exhibition, "The Maya - Language of Beauty," features some 300 artworks spanning around a millennium up to the arrival of Spanish colonial rulers after 1500. The presidents of Mexico and Germany are opening the show at the German capital's Martin-Gropius-Bau museum on Monday.
The show steers clear of perhaps the Mayas' best-known legacy, their spectacular architecture, to concentrate on their portrayals of . . .
