Collection ID: 0026 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Weiditz, Christoph, approximately 1500-1559 (viaf.org/viaf/59421291)

Other related names

• Christoph Graf zu Waldburg Wolfegg, former owner (viaf.org/viaf/35189746)
• Jay I. Kislak, former owner (viaf.org/viaf/100551485)

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

In 1528 Cortez brought an assembly of Aztec (Mexica) nobles perfomers, and courtiers, as well as an assemblage of plants, animals, to the Emperor Charles V at his court in Toledo. This watercolor was executed at Charles V's court by the artist Christoph Weiditz. It depicts two Mexica ball players, identified in the text as playing Tlachtli or 'tlachco'. A similar drawing appears in Weiditz's Trachtenbuch, an album of illustrations now in Nuremberg (Germanisches Nationalmuseum Hs. 22474). This album includes a scene of ballplayers highly reminiscient of this one. This version differs in several details and is more elaborate. It was likely prepared by Weiditz for a special patron.

Extent

Foliation

Support

Decoration

Watercolor of ball players and surrounding scenery

Provenance

• Gift to Jay I. Kislak from Prince Waldburg-Wolfegg in 2004. Mr. Kislak donated this item to the Jay I. Kislak Foundation in 2006
   

Subjects topical

• Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540
• Tlachtli (Indian game)
• Imperialism
• Toledo (Spain)
• Aztecs
• Mexica

Keywords

• Painting
• Drawing

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Jay I. Kislak Foundation, 2004.003.00.0001: Mexica men playing Tlachtli are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2017 Jay I. Kislak Foundation and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• 1 — Watercolor illustration of two Mexica ballplayers at Charles V's court