Pre-Columbian Art

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Aztec (Mexica) Art: History, Time, and Space

History and Origins

Migration from Aztlan, Codex Boturini, 16th century

 

Chicomoztoc (seven caves), Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, c.1550-1570

        

Migrating Chichimec settle in Valley of Mexico, Codex Xolotl, lienzo, 1525-35

 

            Mythical Blue and Red Origin Springs, Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, c.1550-1570

 
Founding of Tenochtitlan, Codex Mendosa, c.1525

 

 

Divination codices

            Chalchiuhtlicue, Codex Borbonicus, c.1525

 

            Primordial Male and Female, Codex Borbonicus, c.1525

 

Cosmological Diagram, Codex Fejˇrvary-Mayer (Aztec/Mixtec), 1400-1521

 

New Fire Ceremony, Codex Borbonicus, c.1525

         Year bundle, stone, c.1500

 

Calendar Stone, Tenochtitlan, c.1502-1519

         Coronation Stone of Moctezuma, c.1503

 

Terms:

Tenochtitlan, founded c.1385; Imperial phase c.1426-1521

Culhuacan and Tenayuca; Triple Alliance = Texcoco, Tlacopan, and Tenochtitlan

Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, Xipe-totec, Quetzalcoatl

Calendar Round = 52 solar years (13 4-year cycles)  / 73 cycles of 260 days

New Fire Ceremony, year bundles, 2 Reed

4 Ollin (Movement)

Moctezuma II (1502-1521)