Chavín art

C33121
concept

Chavín art is the distinctive religious and ceremonial visual culture of the Chavín civilization in ancient Peru, characterized by complex, often symmetrical designs featuring fanged deities, felines, serpents, and hybrid creatures carved in stone, modeled in ceramics, and worked in metal.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Chavín deity representation 1

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Lanzón Chavín deity representation
Raimondi Stela