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Ancient Peruvian art : contributions to the archaeology of the empire of the Incas : [volume 1] / from his collections, by Arthur Baessler tr. by A.H. Keane .

Baessler, Arthur, 1857- · 1902 · Berlin : A. Asher & Co. ; New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., · 45 pictures

Ancient Peruvian art, volume one, is an 1902 archaeological plate book compiled by the German collector Arthur Baessler and translated by A.H. Keane for Berlin and New York readers. The plates are reproductions of Inca-era Peruvian vessels and painted or woven motifs, and a designer could draw on their stylised animals, figures and spiral or radiating patterns, rendered in flat red-brown on tan paper.

Indian art -- Peru · Art -- Peru · Peru -- Antiquities · Inca art

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