The main attraction in the Acropolis, and at Bonampak, is Edifice I (Roman numeral “1”), also called the Temple of the Paintings.  My absolute favorite temple at Bonampak.  Awesome beautiful murals with vivid colors in 3 rooms.  I love it.

According to the INAH Sign accompanying this temple, the Mayans used hewn limestone blocks to construct the stuccoed temple walls, which they decorated simply in red and orange.  The temple frieze has modeled stuccoed figures.  The murals take up 1,615 square feet of wall space in the 3 rooms.  The Mayans executed these murals over a thick coat of lime and powdered stone plaster.  They used mineral and vegetable pigments to achieve a wide color spectrum.  Their painting technique consisted of 1st sketching the figures in with diluted red, then filling the figures in with other colors, and lastly outlining in black.  The murals depict a total of 108 hieroglyphic texts and 270 human figures, whose clothes are different in each case.  30 godlike figures are depicted at the vault juncture points.  A person’s rank is determined by the amount of area they covered and the complexity of their attire.