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The Aztec Calendar Stone Hardcover – April 20, 2010

by Khristaan Villela (Editor), Mary Miller (Editor)

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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.
The Aztec Calendar Stone includes an extended scholarly introduction and a selection of twenty-one key sources dating from 1581 to the present on this massive and puzzling sculpture--including works by Antonio de Leon y Gama, Alfredo Chavero, Eduard Seler, Hermann Beyer, Carlos Navarrete and Doris Heyden, Cecelia Klein, H. B. Nicholson, Felipe Solis, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, and others--many published here for the first time in English.

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“This beautifully illustrated Getty Research Institute publication will undoubtedly take its place as a classic contribution, indispensable to any and all future studies and considerations of the calendar stone. A must have.”—Choice

“[This] book merits contemplation and emulation.”—Cambridge Archaeological Times

About the Author

Khristaan D. Villela is a visiting professor of art history at the University of New Mexico and a visiting scholar at the New Mexico History Museum. Mary Ellen Miller is a professor of art history at Yale University and dean of Yale College.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Getty Research Institute; 1st edition (April 20, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 160606004X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1606060049
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.69 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.2 x 10.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,904,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #348 in Aztec History
- #2,686 in Mexico History
- #10,732 in Native American History (Books)

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