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Mesoamerican Marvels: Art and Architecture of the Aztec and Mayan Civilizations 

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In addition to their political acumen and technological innovations, both civilizations contributed significantly to the artistic and architectural record. Their sculptures and carved stelae, for example, often included stylized iconography that paired human features with those of animals like the jaguar.

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Choosing an Appraiser—Essential Questions to Ask: Part I

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Residential Contents appraisers routinely handle all the furniture, rugs and decorative items that are normally encountered in a home. Fine Art appraisers normally handle all paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, sculpture, tapestries and art glass. Some residential contents appraisers will handle the lower-value fine art objects.

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Walter Gropius: the Visionary Master of Modernism

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The founder of this artistic hive mind? Gropius was invited to head up this new, radical-sounding institution where painting, sculpture, architecture and design all lived together under one roof, working towards a utopian ideology. Wassily Kandinsky – Milieu jaune (Painted in Paris in March 1934).