Price: $30.00

SKU: 5MD020

This item 'Inca Cross Painting' is currently sold out.

Material: Recycled paper, natural dyes

Size: 15" x 19"

Artisan: Mariana Del Hoyo

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Description:
The Inca Cross, or "Chakana" is commonly seen throughout the Incan culture. Archaeologists have found textiles, pottery and constructions with images and shapes of the Chakana that are more that 4000 years old - long before the Incas. This symbol had been found in different shapes and structures in practically all pre-Inca cultures. Apart from its mystical meanings (click on story above), it represented a framework for astrological observations used to calculate their calendar and changing of the seasons. Original watercolor ready for framing.

Mariana Del Hoyo

Mariana Del Hoyo is a native of Montevideo, Uruguay. Her mother, a sculptor, stimulated her interest in the arts, and she worked with her father in graphic design. Since her childhood she had a passion for Andean history and the magic of the Andean culture. Owing to this passion she became a resident of Cusco, Peru. In Cusco is where she developed her art reproducing petroglyphs, symbols, and archetypical images from ancient cultures. 'I admire the art and grace in the shaped art in petroglyphs, I love that these ancestral images can be in our home transmitting their messages through centuries and centuries.'