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accession number: 1963.252
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Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves, 500–550. Central Mexico, Tlacuilapaxco apartment compound(?), Teotihuacán style, Classic Period. Fresco on wall fragment; overall: 83.2 x 116.2 cm (32 3/4 x 45 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1963.252
title: Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves
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creation date: 500–550
creation date earliest: 500
creation date latest: 550
current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Central Mexico, Tlacuilapaxco apartment compound(?), Teotihuacán style, Classic Period
technique: fresco on wall fragment
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Mesoamerica
type: Painting
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measurements: Overall: 83.2 x 116.2 cm (32 3/4 x 45 3/4 in.)
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PROVENANCE
Black Tulip Gallery, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1963
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1963-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Berrin, Kathleen, and Clara Millon. Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacán. [San Francisco, Calif.]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988.
page number: pp. 195-205
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Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963).
page number: p. 291
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974
Kubler, George. "The Iconography of the Art of Teotihuacán." Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, no. 4 (1967).
page number: p. 4, 7-8 , fig. 17
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41263406
Miller, Arthur G. The Mural Painting of Teotihuacán. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1973.
page number: p. 36-37, 170, fig. 366
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Millon, René. Urbanization at Teotihuacán, Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1973.
page number: p. 33-36, 121, fig. 48b
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Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "Veneration of the Dead: Religious Ritual on a Pre-Columbian Mirror-Back." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 9 (1990)
page number: p. 328, fig. 4
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161301
Mexican Art Abroad. (Mexico: Groupo Azabache S.A. de C.V, 1994).
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México en el mundo de las colecciones de arte. [México, D.F.]: [El Gobierno de la República], 1994. .
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Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, NY: Abrams, 1995.
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Turner, J. S. The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996.
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Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. A World History of Art. London: Laurence King, 2002.
page number: p. 522, fig. 12.3
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Stokstad, Marilyn, David Cateforis, and Stephen Addiss. Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005. .
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Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. A World History of Art. London: Laurence King, 2005.
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Hernaez, Gerardo A. Ramirez and Esmeralda Reynoso Camacho. The Skin of Teotihuacan. (Arts and Cultures, 2008).
page number: p. 116, fig. 13
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Wilkins, David G., Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn M. Linduff. Art Past, Art Present. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, 2008.
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Bray, Warwick, and David H. Trump. The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
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