Envisioning a new world [videorecording] / lecture by Mary Miller.

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Envisioning a new world [videorecording] / lecture by Mary Miller.

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Lecturer Mary Miller, the Sterling Professor of History of Art at Yale University and renowned authority on Mesoamerican art and archaeology, investigates the intersections of Aztec mythology and classical antiquity in the early modern period, when the Toltec capital of Tollan was compared with imperial Rome, and deities such as Tlaloc and Tlazolteotl were depicted as New World equivalents of Apollo and Venus. The lecture was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire" on view at the Getty Villa March 24 through July 5, 2010.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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