Seattle Art Museum's Peru: Kingdoms of the sun and the moon exhibit

By Jack Brummet, Art Ed.

This was a fascinating show of rarely seen sculpture, metalwork, painting and textiles spanning the last 3,000 years, and including work from the Mochica, Chimu and Inca cultures.   There was also a lot of detail on archaelogy, artifact preservation, and especially on the "discovery," reasurrection and preservation of Machu Picchu.  It is varied across the arts, and is especially heavy on ancient (1st to5th century) ceramics, most of which as the best preserved I have ever seen.  Many of the pieces do not even include one hairline crack.

As the show progresses, the art shifts during the Colonial and Vice-royal eras as Christianity seeps in (travelling, we've seen this same phenomena in both Turkey and Colombia).  Finally the show progresses into the modern era, and you see both contemporary and indigenous-focused painting.

I lived the gold and jade chalice and the arms golden gloves

The triple deity (father, son, holy ghost)

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