ISBN: 9781606060049 - The Aztec Calendar Stone (2 results)

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.

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.…