Olmec Baby Figurine (c. 1200 –600 BCE) as displayed at the Museo Nacionalede Anthropologia in Mexico.
Photo by Nutopia Ltd
PBS
Explore the many functions of the human image in ancient art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, performed a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in forming early civilizations.
Civilizations, Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS 6.
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