HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feathered Serpent, Censer, Tlalocan
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History of art 88 lecture 4 teotihuacan: architecture, urbanism, and murals (mesoamerica) Basin of mexico, central mexico, 30 mi northeast of mexico city. Eruption of popocatepetl volcano (1st c. ce) may have been the impetus for people to abandon previous settlement and converge at teotihuacan. Continuous renewal of the city until ca. Central mall: pyramid of the moon looking down the avenue of the dead at the. Art does not commemorate or celebrate the deeds of man, but rather presents an abstract fixation on teotihuacan"s peaceful and idealized community: of late, evidence has been found that doesn"t support this view. Instead, there is clear social stratification and hierarchy through elite tombs, artwork, and architecture. Laid out on a grid with respect to the mountains. Teotihuacan mask, covered with greenstone in aztec mosaic: prized, collected, imitated, and reworked by the aztecs. 1878 comparison drawing by the end of the 19th c. , there was still no quantifiable interest in restoring/discovering teotihuacan.
