Rio Bec, Chenes, and Puuc Styles in Maya Architecture

Gendrop, Paul. Rio Bec, Chenes, and Puuc Styles in Maya Architecture. Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 1998. First American edition. Softcover Quarto, 240 pp., b/w photos and drawings, Foreword by George F. Andrews. Originally published in Spanish as Los Estilos Rio Bec, Chenes y Puucen en la Arquitectura Maya (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 1983. This is the first English printing. Copyright 1998 by Marcela Uribe de Gendrop.

Brief Summary of the Explorations Undertaken in these Regions of the Yucatan Peninsula. Background and Observations. Architecture of the Rio Bec Region and its association with other areas. Historical Summary, The Environment. Stylistic Analysis, Background Considerations, Principal types of Buildings. The Zoomorphic Entrances and Related Themes. Wholly Zoomorphic Entrances, Partially Zoomorphic entrances and the Cascading Profile Masks. Iconographic Considerations. Sacred Caves, Two-Headed Monsters and Serpentine Jaws. An Attempt to Classify the Known Zoomorphic Entrances. The Architecture of the PUUC Region. Antecedents of the Fully Developed Puuc Style. The “Early Puuc” Phase and the Evolution of Entrances with Columns. The Use of Colonnettes and Masks in Puuc Architecture. The Late Phases of the Fully Developed Puuc Style. General Observations. Types of Chenes Style.

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