TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Exploring a defining moment of cultural encounter, this book offers points of departure for a comparative archaeology of empire. While many studies dwell on the Aztec gods and the bloody rituals performed in their horror, The Aztec Pantheon examines little-known episodes in which classicism mediated a dialogue both within and between Mesoamerica and Spain. The Spanish imagination of Rome and the memory of the Iberian Peninsula as a province of the Roman Empire were used to forge new understandings of Mexican society as well as to guide and critique Spain's imperial aims in the New World. The authors engage contemporary approaches to cross-cultural analogy, which sheds light on the function of monumental arts, religious spectacles, and consciously classicizing traditions within empires."--BOOK JACKET.
AB  - "Exploring a defining moment of cultural encounter, this book offers points of departure for a comparative archaeology of empire. While many studies dwell on the Aztec gods and the bloody rituals performed in their horror, The Aztec Pantheon examines little-known episodes in which classicism mediated a dialogue both within and between Mesoamerica and Spain. The Spanish imagination of Rome and the memory of the Iberian Peninsula as a province of the Roman Empire were used to forge new understandings of Mexican society as well as to guide and critique Spain's imperial aims in the New World. The authors engage contemporary approaches to cross-cultural analogy, which sheds light on the function of monumental arts, religious spectacles, and consciously classicizing traditions within empires."--BOOK JACKET.
T1  - The Aztec pantheon and the art of empire /
DA  - c2010.
CY  - Los Angeles :
AU  - Pohl, John M. D.
AU  - Lyons, Claire L.,
CN  - F1219.76.R45
CN  - F1219.76.R45
PB  - J. Paul Getty Museum,
PP  - Los Angeles :
PY  - c2010.
N1  - "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition, The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, on view in the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, from March 24 through July 5, 2010"--T.p. verso.
ID  - 343970
KW  - Aztecs
KW  - Aztec gods in art
KW  - Aztec sculpture
KW  - Gods, Roman, in art
KW  - Gods, Greek, in art
KW  - Syncretism (Religion)
SN  - 9781606060070
SN  - 1606060074
TI  - The Aztec pantheon and the art of empire /
ER  -