Obras selectas del Arte Prehispanico

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Author: Arroyo de Anda, Luis Aveleyra from the library of George M Foster Year: 1964 Publisher: Museo Nacional de Antropologia Place: Mexico City Description: unpaginated with numerous black and white plates. Large quarto (11 3/4" x 9 1/2") bound in gray cloth with black lettering to cover. Photographs by Irmgard Groth-Kimball. Prefaces by Ignacio Marquina and Ignacio Bernal. From the library of George M Foster . First edition. This work contains a presentations of some of the most premium works in the holdings of the museum. Designed in 1963 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano and Rafael Mijares, it has an impressive architecture with exhibition halls surrounding a patio with a huge pond and a vast square concrete umbrella supported by a single slender pillar (known as "el paraguas", Spanish for "the umbrella") around which splashes an artificial cascade. The halls are ringed by gardens, many of which contain outdoor exhibits. The museum has 23 rooms for exhibits and covers an area of 79,700 square meters (almost 8 hectares) or 857,890 square feet (almost 20 acres). Opened in 1964 by President Adolfo López Mateos, the museum has a number of significant exhibits, such as the Stone of the Sun, giant stone heads of the Olmec civilization that were found in the jungles of Tabasco and Veracruz, treasures recovered from the Maya civilization, at the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, a replica of the sarcophagal lid from Pacal's tomb at Palenque and ethnological displays of cont

• Binding: Hardcover

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