Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: 9a. Guerra de Azcaputzalco
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Accession number:
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30289
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Record number:
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30289-92
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JCB call number:
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Codex Ind 2
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Image title:
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9a. Guerra de Azcaputzalco
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Place image published:
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[Mexico]
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Image date:
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[ca. 1585]
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Image function:
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plate; leaf 101
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Technique:
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painting
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Image dimension height:
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13.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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18.3 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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21 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.2 cm.
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Materials medium:
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watercolor
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Spanish, Nahuatl
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Description:
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Battle of Azcapotzalco. Two groups of soldiers fight with war clubs and shields at foreground of image. At the left are the combatants, at far left is a jaguar warrior, one of the elite soldiers of the Aztec, with the glyph of a flowering cactus above him; next to him is a figure representing Axayacatl (known from the glyph for water and hill above him). At the right is a figure in a conical hat and another jaguar warrior. Behind the soldiers is a dwelling with three women who make a sign of mercy with their hands. Another woman stands ready to defend them. At right an infant is being sacrificed by priest at a temple while two victims lie dead on the ground.
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Source creator:
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Tovar, Juan de, ca. 1546-ca. 1626
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Source Title:
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Historia de la benida de los yndios apoblar a Mexico de las partes remotas de Occidente los sucessos y perigrinaçiones del camino su gouierno, ydolos y templos dellos, ritos y cirimonias ... calandarios delos tiempos
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Source place of publication:
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Mexico
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Source date:
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ca. 1585
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notes:
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Azcapotzalco, capital city of Tecpanec on Lake Texcoco, was the site of a battle in 1430 between Iztcoatl, the fourth Aztec emperor (who was allied with Netzahualcoyotl, a Texcocan lord) and Maxtla (son of a Tepanec lord to whom the Aztec had been subservient) who had had the previous emperor assasinated. Upon the defeat of Maztla, the three cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Talcopan formed the new Aztec empire of the Triple Alliance. Image is placed horizontally on page. The Tovar manuscript is divided into three sections. This second section of the manuscript--an illustrated history of the Aztecs--is essentially the same as the Codex Ramírez and forms the main body of the manuscript.
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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References:
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Lafaye, J. Manuscript Tovar, p. 240-241
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1946.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Mexico--History--To 1519
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Subject headings:
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Indians of Mexico
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