Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection

Dorie Reents-Budet is consulting curator for art of the ancient Americas at the Walters Art Museum and curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dr. Reents-Budet is the author of 'Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship' (with Virginia Fields, 2006) and 'Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period' (1994). Jessica Arista is an assistant objects conservator for the ancient Americas exhibition at the Walters Art Museum; she previously held internships at the Walters and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Glenn Gates is conservation scientist at the Walters Art Museum; Dr. Gates was previously head research scientist at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Julie Lauffenburger is senior object conservator at the Walters Art Museum, co-editor of 'A Lost Art Rediscovered: The Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium'(2001), and a contributor to 'Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye'(2006). Marc Zender is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. He is the co-author of 'Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture'(2011).

• Foreword; Chronology; Map; Introduction: 'Recollections of My Early Travels' by John Bourne; Part 1: Mesoamerica; Part 2: Central America; Part 3: Andean South America; Colombia & Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia; Part 4: 'Approaches to Authentication' by Julie Lauffenburger; Checklist of the Collection; References; Index.

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