The ancient Maya stone panel known as La Corona Panel 6 is the single most informative Maya monument dedicated by, and to, the work of queens during the Classic period (200–900 CE). Currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, and featured on the cover of Linda Schele and David Freidel’s 1990 publication A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, the work continues to provoke scholarly discussion as the subject of numerous articles and book chapters.
Dr. David Freidel will revisit this masterpiece in a talk given on the occasion of the reinstallation of the Indigenous American Art galleries at the DMA. In addition to an overview of the extant knowledge of texts and imagery from this effigy throne pillow, Freidel will present a new argument regarding the great god image depicted on the monument.
This lecture is co-presented by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Image: La Corona Panel 6, 731 CE. Maya. La Corona, El Petén, Guatemala. Limestone. Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Mayer, 1988.15.McD.
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