Armband Depicting Horse and Rider with Animals
Inca (Probably vicinity of Cuzco, Peru)
16th century, after 1532
- Medium
- Gold
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- 254 × 6.2 cm (10 × 2 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Peru
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
[This] flat sheet of gold ornament...demonstrate(s) the continuity of style and technique in the goldwork of Peru. The piece is important because it can be dated by the representation of a Spaniard in armor, seated on a horse, as having been made just at the time of the conquest. The artist indicated his unfamiliarited with a horse by portraying it with the cloven hooves of a llama. The feline, monkey, and bird motifs, all of which ad been used from the time of the Chavin horizon, are depicted with more assurance.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
