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Visiting Scholar, archaeologist, and museum professional James Doyle, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art,” on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 4:30 p.m., in the Humanities Research Center on the Lycoming College campus. The lecture is a free event and is open to members of the public.
“Maya artists depicted the gods at all stages of their lives: in childhood, as adults in their beautiful maturity, and as elders in their old age. ‘The Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art’ project foregrounded works from Guatemalan and Mexican national collections created by extraordinarily creative sculptors and painters, some known by name, who depicted gods during the Classic period of 250-900 AD,” said Doyle. “This presentation summarizes the concept of the 2022-2023 exhibition, seen by almost 250,000 people at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, and focuses on the case studies of the gods of rain and lightning in both Maya aesthetics and politics.”
Doyle, currently director of the Matson Museum of Anthropology and associate research professor of anthropology at Penn State University, is an archaeologist and museum professional whose curatorial practice activates objects for university teaching, scholarly research, and public education. He has organized exhibitions, conducted archaeological and conservation fieldwork, and published widely on the material and visual cultures of the ancient Americas.
More information on Doyle is available on his website, jamesdoyle.net.
The event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and the departments of anthropology, archaeology, and art history.