The Mayan Art of the
Old 
The Mayans developed a sophisticated artistic
tradition, producing ceramic painted, the clay statuettes, and carved of stone,
jade, bone, shells and wood. Also the books of leaves of higo were painted. They
were proud of their work of art, while they carved intrincate masks dedicated
to the death, often done of jade or with same incrustations. Also their teeth
were decorated with stones and metals with the intention simply to adorn. The
artistic talent of the Mayan began in Preclásico and reached the excellence
in the Classic one. In fact, the Mayan art is one of the most refined in technique
and design of any culture. The carvings in doorjambs and stelae left engravings
for the history of the time that the painting to the fresh air also practiced
to a very fine degree.
 The
ruins of Mayan cities demonstrate clearly to a mixture of architecture and art
in the design and construction of palaces, seats, temples, buildings and pyramids.
The sculpture used in the architecture, was done with a matchless dignity in the
history of all America. The art, sculpture and architecture were of the hand with
the Mayans. The artists of the Classic period were sponsored by the governing
class and well they were not only educated, but who completely were consecrated
to the elaboration of art. The art was definitively the dominion of elite and
most of the devices that even exist as well as epigrafos, they have to do with
the nobility and the celebrations of birth, designation of the heir, assent, war,
games of ball and death. Elite Mayan celebrated a ritual cycle that it was recorded
of consisting of form the art inscriptions.
Sciences
of the Maya old
 he
scientific profits of the Mayan are between most impressive of any civilization.
And when the factors of situation and period of time to the equation were added
their feats were even made but interesting. The Mayans were masters of the medio.ambiente
and around them, which I include flora and fauna, the nocturnal sky, life of the
insects, lands and direction of the water and an obsession with time and the space,
which still exists in the Mayan communities of today. The religion of the Mayan,
I include science, as a way to venerate the a the Gods and was an essential part
of almost each facet of the Mayan life.
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