Pre-Columbian American Art (Sacred Art and Iconography)

Objects and manuscripts made by the peoples of the Americas before the Spanish conquest, such as Aztec statues of deities, painted codices, jade figures and Andean figurines. An entry belongs here when its article dates the work to the Pre-Columbian period or to the first decades after contact and ties it to Indigenous religion. The group page sets related works side by side so that a reader can compare how a tradition, medium or period pictured its sacred subjects.