[Aztlan] Mayans in Europe

[Susan Gilchrist]

The Weiditz drawings are in an album that's been reproduced in a
Dover book,
 *Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154
Plates from the "Trachtenbuch".*
Here is its amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Everyday-Dress-Renaissance-Trachtenbuch/dp/0486279758/sr=8-1/qid=1171504205/ref=sr_1_1/104-0782233-7734345?ie=UTF8&s=books
You can also find some colored reproductions by a google image
search.
I'm working on a long explanation of El Jardín de las Delicias/
The Garden of Delights that I'm slowly posting on the web,
and haven't got an answer to the question of whether the artist
just saw Maya art, i.e. the Dresden Codex and what might have
been a vase that resembled one in the JK collection, or whether
there was someone in Spain to explain the Maya art. But here
is an illustration:
http://elboscoblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/2-dresden-codex-and-el-jardn-de-las.html
--Susan Gilchrist
http://elboscoblog.blogspot.com/

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On 2/14/07, Peter D. Coogan <peter.coogan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Mr Fenelon,
>
> I thought I had found for you a slam-dunk image of the earliest Maya
> in Europe, but, on further research, I see the drawing may depict
> Aztecs.
>
> In 1528, Hernan Cortes put on an ulama exhibition game in Toledo for
> Emperor Charles V. Christoph(er) Weiditz made a drawing that often
> appears in books on the ballgame. Do you have either of the books by
> Whittington or Leyenaar? I recall the inside flap of the Leyenaar's
> book has Weiditz's image of the players.
>
> Books on the ballgame may specify the players as Aztec, Maya or other.
> You could check.
>
> Leyenaar, Ted J.J. (1988). Ulama: The Ballgame of the Mayas and
> Aztecs. Spruyt, Van Mantgem and De Does bv, Leiden.
>
> Whittington, E. Michael.(2001). The Sport of Life and Death: The
> Mesoamerican Ballgame. Thames & Hudson, London.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Regards,
> --Peter D. Coogan
>
>
> On 2/14/07, WEB666 at comcast.net <WEB666 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Are their any stories or references about Mayans brought back to Europe?
> > Dennis Fenelon
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