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Beyond El Dorado:

Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia

1. Information about this exhibition.

2. Some historical facts

3. Pre-Columbian masterpieces. Periods:- Calima-Malagana- Quimbaya - Tumbaga- Tairona

4. The conclusion

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Plan

The accompanying title to the British Museum exhibition, Beyond El Dorado: power and gold in ancient Colombia, 17

October 2013 – 23 March 2014.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM Information

about this exhibition.

For the people of Colombia, the value of gold lay in the symbolic and transformative properties associated with its colour, aura and malleability

THE BRITISH MUSEUM Some historical

facts.

It was used to fashion some of the most visually dramatic and technically sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact. 

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Legendary masterpieces

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Legendary masterpieces.

Calima-Malagana

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100BC-AD400

Funerary Mask

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200BC-AD1200.

Articulated nose ornament

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1600BC-AD100

Necklace

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200BC-1300 AD

Pectoral

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200BC-1300 AD Diadem

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Legendary masterpieces.

Tumbaga

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AD100-1600

Pectoral

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Legendary masterpieces.

Tairona

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AD900-1600.

Pectoral

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AD900-1600

Necklace

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900 AD - 1600 AD

Nose ornament

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900 AD - 1600 AD

Pectoral

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Legendary masterpieces.

Quimbaya

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AD600-1100

Poporo

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500BC-AD600

Hemlet

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AD600-1100.Poporo

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Legendary masterpieces.

Muisca

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600 AD – 1600 AD

Tunjo

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Thank you

For your attention!