id: 151964
accession number: 1984.37
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Figure of a Warrior, after 1325 (thermoluminescence date of casting core, 1345–1575). Central Mexico, Tetzcoco?, Aztec, Post-Classic Period. Gold-silver-copper alloy (cast); overall: 11.2 x 6.1 cm (4 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1984.37
title: Figure of a Warrior
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creation date: after 1325 (thermoluminescence date of casting core, 1345–1575)
creation date earliest: 1325
creation date latest: 1575
current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Central Mexico, Tetzcoco?, Aztec, Post-Classic Period
technique: gold-silver-copper alloy (cast)
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Mesoamerica
type: Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 11.2 x 6.1 cm (4 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1984
opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
title: Treasures of the New World
opening date: 1992-09-15T04:00:00
Treasures of the New World. Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium (organizer) (September 15-December 25, 1992).
title: Sacred Symbols: Three Thousand Years of Native American Art [FRAME]
opening date: 2002-07-16T00:00:00
Sacred Symbols: Three Thousand Years of Native American Art [FRAME]. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (July 16-September 29, 2002); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (May 27-August 18, 2003); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (October 26, 2003-January 11, 2004).
title: The Aztecs
opening date: 2002-11-12T00:00:00
The Aztecs. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 16, 2002-April 11, 2003).
title: The Aztec Empire
opening date: 2004-10-14T00:00:00
The Aztec Empire. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 14, 2004-February 15, 2005).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Update on pre-acquisition history pending.
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The Cleveland Museum of the Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1984-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
García Granados, Rafael. Estudio comparativo de los signos cronográficos e slos códices prehispánicos de Méjico. Actas De La Primera Sesion Celebr. En México En 1939, Del 27 Congreso Internac. De Americanistas. México: Talleres gráf. de la nación, 1942.
page number: pp. 419-469
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Dempsey, James H. "The Annual Report for 1984." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 4 (1985)
page number: p. 265
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159905
Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1991.
page number: p. 45
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Deletaille, Emile, and Lin Deletaille. Trésors du nouveau monde. Bruxelles: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1992.
page number: fig. 134
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Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "Figurine of a Warrior." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (1993)
page number: pp. 144-147
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161403
World of Art. Carson, CA: Educational Insights, 1995.
page number: footnote no. 4, Appendix A
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Young- Sanchez, Margaret. " An Aztec Gold Warrior Figurine (from the Cleveland Museum of Art)." Res 29/30 (Spring/Autumn, 1996.)
page number: pp. 102-126
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Symes, Robin. Bull Leapers to Picasso. 2000.
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Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo, and Felipe R. Solís Olguín. Aztecs. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2002.
page number: p. 253
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Maurer, Evan M., and Molly Hennen. Symboles sacrés: quatre mille ans d'art des Amériques. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002.
page number: Cat. no. 88, pp. 114-115
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Solís Olguín, Felipe R. The Aztec Empire. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004.
page number: p. 231, Cat. No. 156, pl. 122
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"Aztecs at the Guggenheim: A Lost Culture Comes to Life." Special Advertisement section. The New Yorker. (November 15, 2004)
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Baqeudano, Elizabeth. " El Oro Azteca y sus Conexiones con el Poder, la Fertilidad Agricola, la Guerra y la Muerte." Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl. Vol. 36 (2005).
page number: fig. a
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Wason, Marianne. " Albrecht Durer: On Viewing an Exhibit of Aztec Gold." (2006)
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url: www.nnc.rtp.nc.us/pds/amerbegin/contact/text2/durerjournal.pdf
30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space. London: Phaidon, 2007.
page number: p. 682
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World Views: Contact and Change. (Canada: Pearson Education, 2007)
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Beuno Bravo, Isabel. Storia National Geographic. Ed. Margarite Casanovas. (2009)
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Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: pp. 118-9
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Falchetti, Ana María. Lo humano y lo divino: metalurgia y cosmogonía en la América antigua. 2018.
page number: 106
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