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"description": "Brussels, Belgium: Musees Royaux d'Art et d' Histoire; September 25- December 27, 1992. \"Tresors du Nouveau Monde.\" cat. no. 178- 179.",
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"description": "Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery of Art; April 4- July 25, 2004. San Francisco, CA: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Spetember 4, 2004- January 2, 2005. \"Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya.\" ex.cat.no. 65, p. 134.",
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"description": "These figures represent the supernatural patrons of the visual arts and writing: the brothers Hun Batz and Hun Chuen (\"One Monkey\" and \"One Artisan\"). The two were refined artists but also bullies who tormented their younger brothers, who took revenge by transforming their elders into monkeys. Many Maya representations of the painter-scribes immortalize this fate by depicting the pair with both simian and human features, as here. The brothers are shown engaged in artistic or scribal pursuits. Sitting on high-domed bases that may have served as the lids of incense or offering bowls, each apparently once grasped a tool in his upper hand\u2014for instance, a paint brush or a stylus for writing. In the lower hand, one cradles a small mask and the other, a piece of bark that likely refers to the beaten bark from which the Maya made books.",
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"citation": "Bergh, Susan E. \"'The Art of Those Who Lived Here Before the White Man Came': Collecting the Ancient Americas at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In Collecting the \u201cOther Americas\u201d: Ancient Americas Collections in American Art Museums, edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Ellen Hoobler, 67- 82. Denver, Colorado: Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, 2025.",
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