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Author : Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Art in the Great Temple written by Rubén Bonifaz Nuño and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Publisher : Alti Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Treasures of the Great Temple written by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and published by Alti Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and symbolism of the Aztec empire.
Author : Rubén Bonifaz Nuno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Art in the Great Temple México - Tenochtitlan written by Rubén Bonifaz Nuno and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Hinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942765424
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Legend of Tenochtitlán written by Rebecca Hinson and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend of Tenochtitlán tells the story of the Mexica people who founded the city of Tenochtitlán. The history of the city is linked to legendary gods and goddesses. Huitzilopochtli led the Mexica people to their new home, where they found a golden eagle clutching a serpent perched on a cactus growing from a rock in a lake. In 1345, at the site where the eagle had appeared, the Mexica tribe began building the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlán, a temple that would rise 164 feet above the city. Tenochtitlán grew to be the largest and most powerful city of Mesoamerica. Under a succession of emperors, the Aztec city expanded into a vast empire, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. In 1519, Emperor Montezuma anticipated the return of the god Quetzalcóatl, who was prophesied to arrive from the ocean in the east, sailing on a serpent-shaped ship to claim all Aztec lands in his name. Instead, Spaniard Hernán Cortés arrived in November that year. Days later Cortés imprisoned Montezuma and took control of the Aztec empire, but was later driven out by the Aztecs. A year later, the Spaniards and their allies retook Tenochtitlán after three months of battle. This victory marked the destruction of the city and the fall of the Aztec empire. In all, the land of the golden eagle had lasted almost 200 years. During Spanish rule, Mexico City rose above the ruins of Tenochtitlán. The Metropolitan Cathedral was built near the former site of the Great Pyramid. After 300 years, the Spanish withdrew and the land of the golden eagle re-emerged as Mexico. The site, where the tribes are believed to have first seen the golden eagle, is located in the Zócalo plaza in the heart of Mexico City. There every morning, a band plays the Mexican anthem as soldiers raise the Mexican flag with the symbol of Mexico: a golden eagle clutching a serpent, perched on a cactus.
Author : Richard F. Townsend
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884020837
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)
Download or read book State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan written by Richard F. Townsend and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Townsend offers an interpretation of Mexica monumental art by identifying three interrelated themes: the conception of the universe as sacred structure, the correspondence of the social order and the territory of the nation with the cosmic structure, and the representation of Tenochtitlan as historically legitimate successor to past civilization.
Author : Henry B. Nicholson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art of Aztec Mexico written by Henry B. Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the 86 objects of stone, clay, metal, wood, mosaic, and feathers had been excavated recently at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City.
Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292766580
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City written by Barbara E. Mundy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan’s power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was “destroyed and razed to the ground.” But was it? Drawing on period representations of the city in sculptures, texts, and maps, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City builds a convincing case that this global capital remained, through the sixteenth century, very much an Amerindian city. Barbara E. Mundy foregrounds the role the city’s indigenous peoples, the Nahua, played in shaping Mexico City through the construction of permanent architecture and engagement in ceremonial actions. She demonstrates that the Aztec ruling elites, who retained power even after the conquest, were instrumental in building and then rebuilding the city. Mundy shows how the Nahua entered into mutually advantageous alliances with the Franciscans to maintain the city's sacred nodes. She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city’s extraordinary waterworks—the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century—to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City.
Author : John M. D. Pohl
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060074
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire written by John M. D. Pohl and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition, The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, on view in the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, from March 24 through July 5, 2010"--T.p. verso.
Author : Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500390245
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Great Temple of the Aztecs written by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Cortes' extraordinary conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was leveled and its Great Temple demolished. In 1978, clues that led to the rediscovery of the Great Temple and the most spectacular excavations ever conducted in Mexico. Matos discovered ritual deposits containing thousands of offerings from all over the Aztec empire; jaguar skeletons, jade masks, obsidian knives, stone sculptures, and effigy vessels. Matos links these to the overall symbolism of the temple and its fearsome deities, the war and rain gods. Fully illustrated and complete with extensive quotations from 16th-century chronicles.
Author : Johanna Broda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520065970
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)
Download or read book The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan written by Johanna Broda and published by . This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remains of the great double pyramid of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire, came to light during the spectacular excavation project undertaken by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia from 1978 to 1982. This volume offers three views of the Templo Mayor as the quintessential sacred space within the Aztec empire, presented in a collaborative effort by an archaeologist, an ethnohistorian, and a historian of religion.
Author : Shelley Tanaka
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786815425
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Lost Temple of the Aztecs written by Shelley Tanaka and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the discovery of the temple in Mexico City, what was once the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, to introduce the story of the Spanish conquest of Moctezuma and his empire in the sixteenth century.
Author : Ruben Bonifaz Nuno
Publisher : William Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 9780865760363
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Art in the Great Temple written by Ruben Bonifaz Nuno and published by William Kaufmann. This book was released on 1982-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johanna Broda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520056022
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan written by Johanna Broda and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the importance of the Aztec temple from the perspectives of archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and religious historian
Author : Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life and Death in the Templo Mayor written by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme.
Author : Esther Pasztory
Publisher : New York : H.N. Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aztec Art written by Esther Pasztory and published by New York : H.N. Abrams. This book was released on 1983 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Aztec art, looking at temple architecture, featherwork, mosaics, painted books, and sculptures. Examines Aztec society, its gods, rigid social classes, rulers, history, and poetry.
Author : Field Museum of Natural History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Aztec World written by Field Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history, this book covers such contemporary concerns as the environment and agriculture, health and disease, women and social status, and urbanism. It also discusses the effects of European conquests on Aztec culture and society, in addition to offering modern perspectives on their civilization. The text is accompanied by colorful illustrations and photos of artifacts from the best collections in Mexico, including those of the Templo Mayor Museum and the National Museum of Anthropology, both in Mexico City, as well as pieces from archaeological sites and virtual reconstructions of lost artwork. The book accompanies an exhibition at The Field Museum.
Author : Delia Cosentino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477326995
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Resurrecting Tenochtitlan written by Delia Cosentino and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Resurrecting Tenochtitlan considers the ways in which artists, city planners, architects, and intellectuals in Mexico shaped the evolution of Mexico City's civic identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Long forgotten and assumed to have been completely destroyed during the Spanish conquest, layers of the remnants of Tenochtitlan were discovered in the middle of a drainage project augmented under the longtime president Porfirio Díaz. As the cityscape changed in the wake of the ends of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution, the city's layers of history were uncovered to find the remnants of the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, which stirred imaginings of a new and modern Mexican capital and nation that still drew from its ancient history. Tying the modern city to the ancient one was also a way in which intellectuals articulated a mestizo cultural identity. This discovery led to the renewed interest in 16th-century maps by artists, architects, and city planners to understand the ways in which the Aztec capital intersected with the beginnings of Spanish settlement over it. The manuscript examines how artists such as Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera drew from the recent work of archaeologists to render panoramic depictions of both the modern Mexican and the Aztec capital to visualize it for public audiences. And while not strictly chronological in its organization, it looks at how attitudes toward modern Mexico City's ties to Tenochtitlan shaped national identity and shifted over time. The authors' timeframe ends with the inauguration of Diego Rivera's long-planned Anahuacalli Museum, which was created with the support of the National Museum of Anthropology to display pre-Columbian artifacts. Its completion, after Rivera's death, was met with the first waves of the youth cultures in Mexico whose disinterest in and suspicion toward state-sponsored national projects signaled the beginning of the collapse of these ideas"--
