Research Catalog

Title

Tlateccáyotl : los artistas de las piedras preciosas : exposición temporal, mayo-septiembre de 2022 / Emiliano Ricardo Melgar Tisoc, coordinador ; con la participación de: Reyna Beatriz Solís Ciriaco [and 16 others].

Publication

Ciudad de México : Secretaría de Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Melgar Tísoc, Emiliano Ricardo
• Museo del Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico), host institution.
• Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico), issuing body.
• Mexico. Secretaría de Cultura, issuing body.

Description

31 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm.

Summary

For the Mexica, working with stone was an art, which they called in Nahuatl Tlateccáyotl. Like all art, it was made with hands, tools and techniques of specialists, who passed their knowledge from generation to generation. His work was so important that the tlatoani himself supervised it. Now, archaeology is responsible for studying these objects to learn more about the Mexica. Emiliano Melgar Tísoc, curator of this exhibition, has dedicated himself to studying the polished stone objects of the Templo Mayor archaeological site to discover the men and women who made the fabulous pieces that we find in this museum. Many of his findings are unexpected and others confirm what we already know about this society. If you were told that the Mexica used materials from as far away as Guatemala, or that they got objects from cultures that had disappeared many centuries before them, or that it is likely that in Xochimilco they were dedicated to jewelry made of obsidian, what would you think? Between the pages of this brochure, you will discover these and other secrets that Emiliano Melgar and his team share with us.

Alternative Title

Artistas de las piedras preciosas

Subject

• Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Jewelry, Ancient > Mexico > Mexico City > Exhibitions
• Indian art > Mexico > Mexico City > Exhibitions
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Mexico > Exhibitions
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Shell jewelry > Mexico > Exhibitions
• Jewelry > Mexico > Exhibitions
• Gem carving > Mexico > History > Exhibitions
• Indians of Mexico > Jewelry > Exhibitions
• Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Gem carving
• Indian art
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
• Jewelry
• Jewelry, Ancient
• Shell jewelry
• Mexico City (Mexico) > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Mexico
• Mexico > Mexico City

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from May to September, 2022 at the Museo de Sitio del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page [32]).

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Contents

Introducciones / Diego Prieto Hernández, Mtra. patricia Ledesma Bouchan -- Tlateccáyotl: el arte de la lapidaria -- Las piedras preciosas -- El tributo de los objetos lapidarios -- El buen lapidario, el mal lapidario -- Los artífices tolteca -- Tlaiximatini: los que saben ver y buscar -- Los talleres y las evidencias de producción -- Tras las huellas de la tecnología lapidaria antigua -- Las escuelas artesanales lapidarias -- Los artesanos palaciegos y el estilo imperial tenochca -- La concha ¿una piedra de agua? -- Estudios recientes en la lapidaria tenochca -- Nuevos materiales y yacimientos -- Nuevos estilos y reliquias -- Recreaciones y emulaciones -- Morfometría: entre la proporción y el estilo -- Los artesanos de ayer y hoy.

ISBN

• 9786075396200
• 6075396209

OCLC

• on1381030749
• 1381030749
• SCSB-14590857

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries