Martine Fettweis-Viénot
1984 Laureate, Cultural Heritage
Belgium, Born 1947
"Mayan imagery operates like a system of writing in which each detail has its own significance."
In 1975, a young Belgian archaeologist and art historian, Martine Fettweis-Viénot, began a single-handed study of the colourful Maya murals of Mexico and Guatemala. Her painstaking copying of the paintings, which is to result eventually in a published catalogue, led her to new theories about the murals and their role in Maya society.
236
paintings in Martine's database as of 1996
95
sites visited in documenting murals
3
culturally and environmentally different zones in Martine's research
1993
year of Martine's Brussels exhibition of photographs, maps and Mayan wall paintings
