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Mesoamerican Marvels: Art and Architecture of the Aztec and Mayan Civilizations 

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Meanwhile, painted murals often illustrated regal and mythological narratives via similarly stylized imagery and hieroglyphics, the pictographic language of the Mayan people. Often relief carving combined with paints, like in the lintel reliefs from the Mayan city of Yaxchilán , to further amplify these narrative details.

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Exploring Brazilian Modernism: A Fusion of Tradition and Innovation

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This painting became the banner for the art movement, which absorbed and transformed foreign influences, and cannibalized them into something singularly Brazilian. After studying painting, the Italian Hauner moved to Brazil and forged a successful partnership with the Austrian born Jewish architect Eisler, who had fled Nazi occupied Europe.