Hombre maya

A reproduction of a Mayan painting of a man carrying a green object, also painted black, blue, yellow, brown, red and white, with a blue background.
It is part of a serie of printings took from the different murals of Cacaxtla an archeologic zone in the south of the state of Tlaxcala. Cacaxtla is a big pyramidal basement form the post-classic period (950- 1521) that conserved various mural paintings with Mayan influence.
This piece is from the entrance to the building A, mural called “Hombre maya”.
Héctor Jara is an engraver artist whose work is done in amate paper.