Yet visitors may be surprised to find the ground floor of the new wing occupied by Aztec ... “America” and the colonial US. The MFA instead presents art from this era of both Americas, South ...

The collection is from the Post-classic to the Aztec ea, around 1100 through 1532 AD. The items were being shipped to Sumter, South Carolina ... to protect ancient art, artifacts and antiquities.

When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520 ... “monumentality is essential to an art of empire.” Here, an enormous greenstone head of a goddess, broken off from ...

FARMINGTON — For the second year, Aztec Ruins National Monument will present an event this weekend focusing on arts and crafts produced by Native American ... that buy art are always intrigued ...