The Aztec Calendar Stone

by Khristaan Villela

Other authorsMary Ellen Miller
Paper Book, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

F1219.76 .C35A98 2010

Publication

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, c2010.

Description

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 the most recognizable Pre-Columbian monument. Commissioned by the Mexican emperor Motecuhzoma I in the last decades before the Spanish invasion of the New World and buried by the conquerors not long afterward, the Aztec Calendar Stone has had a far-reaching afterlife in the modern world.-publisher description.

Language

Physical description

ix, 333 p.; 28 cm

ISBN

160606004X / 9781606060049

Barcode

34662000784105
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