Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru is a welcome addition to the literature on the art of ancient Peru. The Moche were a state-level society who prospered in the first seven or so centuries AD on the desert coast of what is now northern Peru. They were prolific and prodigious artists in many media, the most famous being metalwork, the most numerous being ceramics. The gold-filled graves at Sipán and other Moche sites have been discovered in the last twenty years, and much progress has been made in our knowledge of this important ancient American society and its art. Christopher Donnan is certainly the person to write on the subject of Moche ceramics, as he is a well-respected and experienced archaeologist and scholar of Moche art, and the author or co-author of some eighteen publications over his career. His publications span archaeological reports and wide-ranging iconographic surveys, and this focused study of the ceramic record makes good use of the very exciting discoveries of Moche burials and structures that have taken place since the late 1980s. Thus, he is able to bring to bear a great familiarity with the ceramic painting corpus while incorporating new and detailed excavation findings about actual...