Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec / c. 1200–600 BCE
Kneeling Figure
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Kneeling Figure as sculpture (Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec · c. 1200–600 BCE).
An observant traveler discovered the left knee and hand fragment, orginally missing and now reunited.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this sculpture as stone.
The museum's collection notes: Outside of the Maya, Olmec sculptures of humans have a naturalism unknown in other Mesoamerican artistic traditions. On this finely carved figure, the musculature of the arms, torso, and legs is carefully depicted, and even the fingernails and toenails and are shown.
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