This is a superbly illustrated survey of one of the most recognizable monuments of Aztec civilisation - the Calendar Stone. Analyzed by scholars, deployed by Mexican nationalists, beloved by the public, and reproduced in every medium and scale since its rediscovery in 1790, the Aztec Calendar Stone - or Piedra del Sol - has become one of the most recognizable monuments of the Pre-Columbian era. Commissioned by the Mexican emperor Motecuhzoma I in the last decades before the Spanish invasion of the New World and buried by the Conquistadors not long after, the Aztec Calendar Stone has had a remarkably far-reaching legacy in the modern world. "The Aztec Calendar Stone" is a superbly illustrated and highly informative introduction to the study of this massive and puzzling sculpture - including works numerous acclaimed scholars, many of which are published in English for the first time.
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Khristaan D. Villela is a visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and a visiting scholar at the New Mexico History Museum. Mary Miller is a professor of art history at Yale University and Dean of Yale College.
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Color pictorial paper over boards; 333 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Twenty-one key texts, from 1581 to the present, about the Aztec calendar stone, the world's most recognizable pre-Columbian monument. VG+, previous owner stamp on endpapers and top of text block. Seller Inventory # 123125
Seller: BWS BKS, Ferndale, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New. This is a superbly illustrated survey of one of the most recognizable monuments of Aztec civilisation - the Calendar Stone. Analyzed by scholars, deployed by Mexican nationalists, beloved by the public, and reproduced in every medium and scale since its rediscovery in 1790, the Aztec Calendar Stone - or Piedra del Sol - has become one of the most recognizable monuments of the Pre-Columbian era. Commissioned by the Mexican emperor Motecuhzoma I in the last decades before the Spanish invasion of the New World and buried by the Conquistadors not long after, the Aztec Calendar Stone has had a remarkably far-reaching legacy in the modern world. "The Aztec Calendar Stone" is a superbly illustrated and highly informative introduction to the study of this massive and puzzling sculpture - including works numerous acclaimed scholars, many of which are published in English for the first time. Seller Inventory # 94447