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Book Description: Turner, Madrid, Spain, 2003. Cloth. Book Condition: New -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 424 pages - in Spanish - 360 color repros., incl. many plates - published to coincide with the 2003 showing at London's Royal Academy of Arts which brought together objects on loan from 48 museums and institutions from around the world - Hugh Thomas and 13 other historians describe the Aztec view of the past and the world; the Aztec calendar; Aztec society: economy, war and tributes; Aztec art, codes, philosophy and literature; the Spanish Conquest - showings in Great Britain of pre-Hispanic Mexican art - the human figure; the natural world, gods of life and death, religion, gold and status symbols, the high temple of Tenochtitlan, treasures, indo-Christian art, the codes - family tree of Aztec rulers w/11 figs. - 24 Aztec symbols, glossary and bibliography. Bookseller Inventory # 002319

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