Sujet

The Great Aztec Temple at Tenochtitlan dedicated to the god of war, 1771. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Great Aztec Temple at Tenochtitlan dedicated to the god of war, 1771. Built in a large square, with an ashlar wall, carved on the outside with different loops of chained snakes.From "Historia de la Conquista de México, población, y progresos de la América septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España" (History of the Conquest of Mexico, population, and progress of northern America, known by the name of New Spain). Written by Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneryra (1610-1686), Chronicler of the Indies. Volume I. Edition published in Barcelona and divided into two volumes, 1771. King's printer: Thomas Piferrer.

Date

1771

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A06_065

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,2Mo (9,7Mo) / 41,0cm x 31,9cm / 4843 x 3769 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors people male man men historical religious architecture landscape arts country religion temple book guy view Mexico Central America deity God New World native Mexican stairway Mexico City location aztec century stairs Colonial vista staircase symmetry literature concept symmetrical B&W engraved engraving world heritage site Day black & white black and white background people Elevated View B W UNESCO 18th century Eighteenth Century Mesoamerica Mesoamerican Templo Mayor history historic colonialism Tenochtitlan TGN outside indigenous engraving landscape Unknown arial view Thomas god of war 1770s 1771 New Spain Antonio Solis Piferrer Prisma Archivo Fotografico Historia de la Conquista de Mexico Antonio de Solis y Rivadeneryra Rivadeneryra Antonio de Solis y Antonio de Sol?s y Rivadeneryra Sol?s Thomas Piferrer History of the Conquest of Mexico