Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived there at its peak around 600 a. By 2001, the national autonomous university of mexico presents a very complete catalog of these artistic manifestations based on exhaustive photographic records. Found throughout the city on the walls of apartment compounds such as tetitla, the paintings depict a wide range of images centered around two major deities. In any case, it may be said that the spark teoti huacan kindled blazed into a glowing fire, though evanescent and ephemeral, on the walls of cacax tla. The mural of tetitla shows the great goddess wearing a headdress that features an owl. In years leading up to 1942, a series of murals were found in the tepantitla compound in teotihuacan. Teotihuacans murals constitute a primary source for understanding the citys religion and social organization. Just jump on a northbound bus, and youll find this great site about 40 minutes outside mexico city. Actual mural from the tetitla compound showing a similar portrait. Water temples and civil engineering at teotihuacan, mexico. Teotihuacan, located in the highlands of central mexico, is one of the worlds most impressive archaeological sites. Abstract the present work is an approach to the teotihuacan visual language, searching the forms through which are pronounced the relation mannature. Frequently the patron deity was merged with the deified tribal ancestor. Tetitla features a number of fine mural paintings, including one of the great goddess who is also pictured in a similar apartment compound called tepantitla.
Jaguars are fairly common in teotihuacan mural art, but netted jaguars are rare, and the tetitla. The iconography of the teotihuacan tlaloc ever since 1882, when hamy identified an enigmatic teotihuacan sculpture fig. Teotihuacan mask ad 300650 stone, shell, obsidian and turquoise teotihuacans murals teotihuacans greatest art forms were architecture and mural paintings. This page contains additional resources for the study and appreciation of the harald wagner collection of teotihuacan murals.
Introduction teotihuacan is an immense prehistoric city in the semiarid highlands of central mexico. Wagner was a rather eccentric san francisco architect who bequeathed his collection of 70 mural fragments to the fine arts museums of san francisco. Y como ninguna otra ciudad arqueologica, teotihuacan es rico en pinturas. Drewitt, bruce 1987 measurement units and building axes at teotihuacan. Pdf experts remain divided about the nature of the sociopolitical. Teotiuacan is full of mysteries why was it abandoned. Great goddess or spider woman the apartment compound of tetitla is located 500m west of the avenue of the dead at teotihuacan. Measurements used at cacaxtla combine the practical needs of builders with.
Secretly removed from their site in the 1960s, they were left to the fine arts museums of san francisco in a surprise bequest by harald wagner, an energetic san francisco art lover who had spent years living in. Weve added another item to our series of pdf travel stories teotihuacan, mexico. Mural painting mural art ancient aztecs ancient civilizations aztec empire aztec ruins aztec culture indonesian art native american history that teotihuacan picture does look suspect. Like other ancient mesoamerican civilizations, teotihuacan is one of complexity, beauty, and mystery.
The teotihuacans remark the man and nature are interdependent to each other by using a religious. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The great goddess of teotihuacan or teotihuacan spider woman is a proposed goddess of the precolumbian teotihuacan civilization ca. Mttral painting in cacaxtla and teotihuacan cosmopolitism. The harald wagner collection of teotihuacan murals is the largest and most important outside of mexico. Civilizacion saqueo, destruccion e incendio pobladores. Dimensioning at the epiclassic site of cacaxtla, tlaxcala, mexico.
The murals are remarkable for their quality, condition and iconographic breadth. Mural fragment representing a priest teotihuacan fresco art institute of chicago processional figure with tassel headdress teotihuacan fresco collection rushton e. If mountains could speak ancient toponyms recorded at teotihuacan. The teotihuacan mural project began following the death of harold wagner in 1976. Pdf modeling collective rule at ancient teotihuacan as a. Pdf pintura mural y mitologia en teotihuacan andrea. Arthur miller published in 1971 the mural painting of teotihuacan, work that registers all the mural painting discovered so far. Understanding the effects of mayateotihuacan interaction on. The teotihuacan murals are generally very abstract even by mesoamerican standards.