Metalwork was a particular skill of the Aztecs. The great Renaissance artist Albrecht Drurer saw some of the artefacts brought back to Europe which caused him to say, '...I have … 展开

The Aztecs, as with their cultural predecessors, employed art as a tool to reinforce their military and cultural dominance. Imposing buildings, frescoes, sculpture and ev… 展开

The large circular Stone of Tizoc (carved c. 1485 from basalt) is a masterful mix of cosmic mythology and real-world politics. It was originally used as a surface on which to perform huma… 展开

Following the fall of the Aztec Empirethe production of indigenous art went into decline. However, some designs of the Aztec culture lived on in the work of local artists employed … 展开