Leonardo López Luján

The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericansâe(tm) own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers.

How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery

The Art of Urbanism

Este es un estudio arqueologico e historico sobre la arquitectura religiosa de la civilizacion mexica. Explora, en particular, las caracteristicas tecnicas, cronologicas, espaciales y estilisticas de la casa de las aguilas, importante edificio en donde los gobernantes mexicas se preparaban para morir. El trabajo obtuvo el Premio Alfonso Caso 1998 a la mejor tesis de doctorado en arqueologia.

un ejemplo de la arquitectura religiosa de Tenochtitlan

La casa de las águilas

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the discovery of the large monolith dedicated to Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui, accidentally found on February of 1978 in Mexico City's historic downtown and that originated the archaeological project "Proyecto Templo Mayor", archeologists Matos Moctezuma and López Luján have published a beautiful and profusely illustrated edition that analyses and graphically documents the history, religious meaning, aesthetics and later archeological discovery of some of the largest Aztec basalt and andesitic stone monuments discovered: the sculptures known as the goddess Coyolxauhqui, the goddess Coatlicue, the Aztec Calendar, the goddess Tlaltecuhtli, the stone of Tizoc and the stone Piedra del Antiguo Arzobispado, and the goddess Tlaltecuhtli. Both archaeologists, who at different times coordinated the project Templo Mayor, decided to leave a written and graphic record of six monuments that -they explain in the introduction- have several characteristics in common: "All are works of the same culture, the mexica. All belong to the large sculpture production of what is known as the Imperial Period, that is, they are pieces of great dimensions that were carved on volcanic rocks within a period of time that does not surpass fifty years between the earliest and the oldest. All, in addition, were discovered in what was the center of the old Tenochtitlán, either inside its ceremonial enclosure, or in the seat of the main market, today occupied by the main plaza Zócalo of the City of Mexico." (Our translation) --P. 15.

Escultura monumental mexica

"This important book presents detailed descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of offerings recovered during the last 50 years from excavations of the Aztec Great Temple in Mexico City. Argues that the offerings formed part of a cosmovision and are more varied in content, and presumably meaning, than previously thought"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan

Leonardo Lόpez Lujan

The spectacular findings of the historic Templo Mayor Project, which took place in the heart of Mexico City from 1978 to 1997.

Leonardo López Luján

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