num_pages: 78
description: Richard Fraser Townsend offers an interpretation of major examples of Mexica monumental art by identifying three interrelated iconographic the conception of the universe as a sacred structure, the correspondence of the social order and the territory of the nation with the cosmic structure, and the representation of Tenochtitlan as the historically legitimate successor to the civilization of the past.
language: English
title: State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan
titlecomplete: State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection