Native Andean

The cultures and styles of the broad geographic area that includes the Andes mountains but also the deserts to the west and the jungles to the east.

Dates

4000 B.C.E. –1534 C.E.

Places

South America > Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru

Basics Works of Art Artists Periods, Cultures, Styles Curated Guides

Native Andean

The cultures and styles of the broad geographic area that includes the Andes mountains but also the deserts to the west and the jungles to the east.

Dates

4000 B.C.E. –1534 C.E.

Places

South America > Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru

Basics Works of Art Artists Periods, Cultures, Styles Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

Andean cultures, an introduction

Moche culture, an introduction

Glossary for pre-Columbian art

Nasca art: sacred linearity and bold designs

Tiwanaku, an introduction

Paracas, an introduction

Nasca ceramics, an introduction

Paracas textiles, an introduction

Teresita Fernández on pre-Columbian gold

Works of Art

Attributed to Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, The Virgin of Bethlehem

1661–1700

A Wari tunic

c. 600–850

Moche Octopus Headdress

300–600 C.E.

Inka checkerboard tunics

c. 1400–1540; 16th century

The Inka khipu

before 1300–1570

Wari feather panels

c. 600–900

Chorrera ceramics from Ecuador

c. 1300–300 B.C.E.

Caral

26th–20th century B.C.E.

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Artists

Attributed to Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, The Virgin of Bethlehem, 1661–1700, oil on canvas (Cathedral of Cuzco; photo: Project ARCA)

Attributed to Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, The Virgin of Bethlehem, 1661–1700, oil on canvas (Cathedral of Cuzco; photo: Project ARCA)

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao

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Periods, Cultures, Styles

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Feline-Head Bottle, 15th-5th century B.C.E., Cupisnique, Jequetepeque Valley (possibly Tembladera), Peru, ceramic and post-fired paint, 32.4 x 20.5 x 13.3 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Cupisnique

c. 1800–200 B.C.E.

Standing Female Figure, Chorrera culture, Ecuador, 10th–2nd century B.C.E., ceramic and slip, 14 inches high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chorrera

c. 1300–300 B.C.E.

Archaeological site of Chavín de Huántar (photo: Apollo, CC BY 2.0)

Chavín

900–200 B.C.E.

Flying Figure bowl, 3rd–1st century B.C.E., Paracas, ceramic, post-fired paint, 5.1 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Paracas

c. 700 B.C.E.–200 C.E.

Jama-Coaque

c. 350 B.C.E.–1531 C.E.

Salinar (?) culture, Nose Ornament with Spiders, 1st century B.C.E.–2nd century C.E., gold, Peru, North Coast, 5.1 x 11.1 x 0.3 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Salinar

c. 200 B.C.E.–200 C.E.

Nasca textile bag with abstract design, perhaps serpents, 7th century (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Nasca

c. 100 B.C.E.–800 C.E.

Sun Gate, Tiwanaku, Bolivia (photo: Brent Barrett, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Tiwanaku

c. 200–1100 C.E.

Nose ornament, c. 400 C.E. (Moche), from the funerary bundle of the Señora de Cao, gold, silver, stone inlay, 5 cm (Museo Cao, Magdalena de Cao, Peru)

Moche

c. 200–900 C.E.

Tunic (Wari, Peru), c. 600–850 C.E., wool, cotton (interlocked tapestry weave), 109.9 × 118.1 cm (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design)

Wari

c. 500–1000 C.E.

Inverse-Face Beaker, 10th-11th century, Sicán (Lambayeque), Peru, gold, 20 x 18.1 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Sicán

c. 750–1375

Chan Chan panel, Chimu peoples, (La Libertad Region, Peru; photo: Micah MacAllen, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Chimú

950–1470

Chancay Standing Female Figure, 1200–1450, ceramic, 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 5 inches (Michael C. Carlos Museum)

Chancay

c. 1000–1450

Machu Picchu, Peru, c. 1450–1540 (photo: Matthew Paulson, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Inka Empire

c. 1100–1534

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Curated Guides to Native Andean

All Textbook Chapters Syllabi

Textbook Chapter

Early South America (c. 3000 B.C.E.–2nd century C.E.)

Textbook Chapter

Middle South America, c. 2nd century–c. 900 C.E.

Textbook Chapter

Late South America (c. 9th–16th century)

Syllabus

Art of the Early Modern Period Syllabus (c. 1400–1800)

Syllabus

Latin American Art Syllabus