Watch a video preview of the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury & Legacy in the Ancient Americas. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue from February 28 through May 28, 2018.
Featuring Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art, The Met.
This landmark exhibition of luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors will trace the emergence and florescence of goldworking in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance in the Andes to its later developments farther north in Central America and Mexico. In the ancient Americas, metalworking developed in the context of ritual and regalia, rather than for tools, weapons, or currency.
Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas will reveal the distinctive ways ancient Americans used not only metals, but also jade, shell, and feathers-materials often considered more valuable than gold. Bringing together newly discovered archaeological finds and masterpieces from major museums in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, this exhibition will cast new light on these ancient civilizations and their place within world history.
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The exhibition is made possible in part by David Yurman.
Additional support is provided by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Alice Cary Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown, the Estate of Brooke Astor, the Lacovara Family Endowment Fund, and William R. Rhodes.
This exhibition is co-organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute.
Production Credits:
Director: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Editor: Dia Felix
Camera: Sarah Cowan, Stephanie Wuertz
Lighting: Dia Felix
Production Coordinator: Kaelan Burkett
Production Assistants: Bryan Martin, Kimberly Cionca Sebesanu
Image Editing/Animation: Bryan Martin
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Images courtesy of:
Clark M. Rodríguez
Yukata Yoshii
© The Field Museum / Photo: John Weinstein
Juan Pablo Murrugarra Villanueva
© Dumbarton Oaks, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, D.C.
© Secretaría de Cultura-INAH. Photo: Martirene Alcantara
Christopher B. Donnan
Art Resource, NY. © Secretaría de Cultura-INAH / Photo: Michel Zabé
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Museo Larco, Lima-Perú
© Museo Kuntur Wasi / Ministerio de Cultura del Perú
Art Resource, NY. © The Trustees of the British Museum
© Secretaría de Cultura-INAH. Photo: Jorge Pérez de Lara
Fundación Augusto N. Wiese
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bibliothèque nationale de France
© Secretaría de Cultura-INAH. Photo: José Eduardo Novas Viveros
Art Resource, NY. © RMN-Grand Palais / Photo: Benôit Touchard
© President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
© Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / Photo: Katherine Wetzel
© 2017 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum / Photo: Jean Paul Torno
© Secretaría de Cultura-INAH. Archivo Digital de las Colecciones del Museo Nacional de Antropología
Courtesy of the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart / Photo: Anatol Dreyer
Art Resource, NY. © Museo Nacional del Prado
© 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art