id: 151964 accession number: 1984.37 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.37 updated: 2022-01-04 16:58:58.854000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Central Mexico, Tetzcoco?, Aztec, Post-Classic Period technique: gold-silver-copper alloy (cast) department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.2 x 6.1 cm (4 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1984 opening date: 1985-04-03T04:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Tresors du Nouveau Monde, Musess Royaux d' Art et d' Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (1992). --- PROVENANCE Update on pre-acquisition history pending. date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of the Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1984- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The calendar glyphs on the figure's back read "2 Rabbit, 3 Water." digital description: wall description: The elite status of this warrior, who holds a dartthrower, darts, and a shield, is revealed by the gold from which he is made as well as his jewelry and sandals. Military accomplishment was prized by the Aztecs, whose imperial expansion was fueled by ambition as well as their belief that they were chosen to uphold cosmic order through war. The purpose of the chest cavity is unclear; the figurine may have been worn as a pendant. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: Deletaille, Emile, and Lin Deletaille. Trésors du nouveau monde. Bruxelles: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1992. page number: fig. 134 url: 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 url: 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 url: Symes, Robin. Bull Leapers to Picasso. 2000. page number: url: Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo, and Felipe R. Solís Olguín. Aztecs. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2002. page number: p. 253 url: 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 url: Solís Olguín, Felipe R. The Aztec Empire. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004. page number: p. 231, Cat. No. 156, pl. 122 url: "Aztecs at the Guggenheim: A Lost Culture Comes to Life." Special Advertisement section. The New Yorker. (November 15, 2004) page number: url: 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 url: Wason, Marianne. " Albrecht Durer: On Viewing an Exhibit of Aztec Gold." (2006) page number: 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 url: World Views: Contact and Change. (Canada: Pearson Education, 2007) page number: url: Beuno Bravo, Isabel. Storia National Geographic. Ed. Margarite Casanovas. (2009) page number: url: 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 url: Falchetti, Ana María. Lo humano y lo divino: metalurgia y cosmogonía en la América antigua. 2018. page number: 106 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.37/1984.37_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.37/1984.37_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.37/1984.37_full.tif