may 29, 1542 - Frontispiece of the codex Mendoza
Description:
Date: 1542 CE
Artist: unkown
Medium: Pigment on Paper
Location: Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Function:
- named after Antonio de Mendoza, viceroy of New Spain
- intended as a history of the Aztecs for
Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire
- shows daily lives in Mexico of the Aztecs
- skulls represent sacrificial victims
Form:
- uses pictograms created by Aztecs artists that were after annotated in Spanish
- depicts the founding of Tenochititlan and the conquest of Colhuacan and Tenayucan on the bottom
- enemy temples are on fire while Aztec warriors carry clubs and shields
- eagle land ing on a cactus at the intersection fo the two waterways commemorates the division of Tenochtitlan into four quarters
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