Life and Death in the Templo Mayor

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

University Press of Colorado

After Cortes' extraordinary conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was leveled & its Great Temple demolished. In 1978, clues that led to the rediscovery of the Great Temple & 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, & effigy vessels. Matos links these to the overall symbolism of the temple & its fearsome deities, the war & rain gods. Fully illustrated & complete with extensive quotations from 16th-century chronicles.

Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan

Thames&Hudson

The Aztec Empire

Felipe Solís Olguín

Michael E. Smith

History

Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.

Masterpieces of art from Aztec Great Temple. Sumptuous book. --Publishers Weekly

Treasures of the Great Temple: Art and Symbolism of the Aztex Empire

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Alti Pub

Aztecs

Displays the artwork of the Aztecs on exhibit at Britain's Royal Academy of Arts and includes essays detailing key elements of Aztec culture and history.

Royal Academy Publications

VOCES DE BARRO

INAH

The Great Temple (Official Guide)

National Institute of Anthropology and History

Los Aztecas. Las civilizaciones mesoamericanas (Spanish Edition)

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Extranas, asombrosas, muchas veces terribles, las piedras que nos llegan desde un pasado muy remoto y que identificamos con las civilizaciones antiguas de Mexico nos dejan siempre la sensacion de colocarnos frente a un enigma. Estas paginas nos adentran en algunos misterios de los espacios mexicas y nos llevan al desciframiento estetico, historico y poetico de la escultura prehispanica de Tenochtitlan.
Strange, astonishing, often dire, rocks that reach us from the remote past and which we identify with the ancient civilizations of Mexico, we always left the feeling of putting ourselves in front of an enigma. These pages us into some of the mysteries of space and lead to Mexica decryption aesthetic, historical and poetic sculpture's pre-Hispanic Tenochtitlan.

Arte del Templo Mayor (Art from Templo Mayor), Artes de Mexico # 7 (Bilingual edition: Spanish/English) (Spanish Edition)

Beatriz de la Fuente

Ruben Bonifaz Nuno

Artes de Mexico

El arte prehispanico suele ser asombroso y enigmatico, y la ceramica de Teotihuacan no es la excepcion. Esta edicion celebra la maestria de los alfareros teotihuacanos, encuentra vinculos con los artesanos actuales de la region, que siguen siendo miembros del mismo linaje, y nos otorga nuevos motivos para entender por que aquella antigua metropoli es conocida como "la ciudad del endiosamiento". The pre-Columbian art is often amazing and enigmatic, and ceramics of Teotihuacan is no exception. This edition celebrates the skill of Teotihuacan pottery, artisans find links to current region, which remain members of the same lineage, and gives us new reasons to understand why this ancient metropolis is known as the "city of godliness. "

Ceramica de Teotihuacan (Teotihuacan Ceramic), Artes de Mexico # 88 (Bilingual edition: Spanish/English) (Coleccion artes de Mexico/ Collection Art of Mexico) (Spanish Edition)

Gordon, Ross

George L Cowgill

James C. Langley

Leonardo Lopez Lujan

Esther Pasztory

Yoko Sugiura

Americas

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