Antigüedades peruanas

"[Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, a prominent Peruvian scientist, geologist, mineralogist, chemist, archaeologist, politician, diplomat, and founder and director of Lima's Museo de Historia Natural,] published in Vienna 1851 with Johann Jakob von Tschudi, acting as co-author, their common publication Antigüedades Peruanas about the Inca Empire. That book was a profound work about the Inca Empire, its history, origin, government system, scientific knowledge, language, religion, customs and monuments [prior to the Spanish invasion]."--Wikipedia.org website

"The work include[s] studies of pre-Hispanic art, language, religion, customs, and institutions, accompanied by elaborate illustrations of architecture, monuments, and objects. Particular attention was paid to Inca rulers. Rivero and Tschudi's main sources for this history were Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca, and Fernando de Montesinos, and it highlights the civilizing influence of this Cuzco dynasty."--Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas, page 176

"Rivero first published an article by the same name in 1828 in the Memorias de ciencias, which focused specifically on quipus, the knotted string records of the Incas. The subsequent 1841 version, Antigüedades peruanas (text I), elaborated on the subject. [Antigüedades peruanas, 1851] Text II ... was a greatly expanded version. Written with Tschudi, chapters included discussions of the arrival of people to the New World, the history of the Incas and Spanish contact, Inca social and political systems, the Quechua language and quipus, technology, religious rites and beliefs, archaeological sites and monuments, and even a discussion of Peruvian crania, which was likely to have been written entirely by Tschudi. The [1851] edition also includes an atlas of fifty-eight illustrations ... Some of these depictions inspired the painter Francisco Laso ([Natalia] Majlhuf 1995)."--Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900, volume III, page 596

"El Atlas de las Antigüedades peruanas, ... es uno de los estudios más exhaustivos de todas las reliquias, ruinas, huesos, artefactos, obras de arte y gramáticas de la lengua quechua, del Perú precolombino, que se conoce. Incluye, asimismo, capítulos sobre el sistema de gobierno y las instituciones políticas incas, y una extensa bibliografía de diccionarios y tratados científicos. De especial interés son las referencias al calendario, la medicina, el arte de la navegación, las matemáticas y la astronomía. Por otro lado, el arte, la religión y los monumentos incas del estado Chimú y su capital Chan Chan (donde ambos autores son conmemorados en sitios que llevan sus nombres) tienen un lugar preponderante en esta recopilación."--Apple.com https://books.apple.com/fr/book/antig%C3%BCedades-peruanas-vol-1/id730846137?ign-gact=1 (viewed January 22, 2024)

Text volume, color frontispiece image caption: Manco Capac y Mama Ocllo; "Según el mito de origen de los Inka, Itl, el sol, envió a dos sus hijos - Manco Capac y Mama Ocllo - con el fin de llevar orden la civilización a la humanidad. La pareja emergió del Lago Titicaca y su caminó hacia el norte para fundar una ciudad. La ciudad seria Cusco y la senda recorrida, el primer Camino Inka. Manco Capac se convirtió en el primer Shapa Inka, gobernante del pueblo andina."--Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution https://americanindian.si.edu/caminoinka/ancestors/creationstories/children-sun.html (viewed January 12, 2024)

Atlas volume: "... was produced to accompany a landmark collaboration between a Peruvian archaeologist [Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz ] and a Swiss naturalist [Johann Jakob von Tschudi ]. It includes ... views of pre-Columbian mummies, tombs, artifacts, [ceramics and pottery, weapons, architectural monuments] and more. The lithography [chromolithographs] was done by Leopoldo Müller and the volume was published by the "imperial de la Corte del estado de Viena." The plates are numbered I through LVIII, plus an additional plate ... and the title page [illustrated with the portraits of 14 Incas carved on the massive "Puerta" with a view of the Peruvian landscape and fauna]."--Swann Auction Galleries https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/(PERU)-Mariano-Eduardo-de-Rivero-and-Johann-Jakob-von-Tschud?saleno=2633&lotNo=253&refNo=802970 (viewed January 12, 2024)

Atlas volume, color title page: "The artists immortalize imaginary portraits of the Inca rulers on the monumental Gateway of the Sun from the site of Tiwanaku. Never mind that the Gateway of the Sun predated the Inca Empire by centuries or that a tradition of portraiture as such was a colonial invention; the image was successful in its evocation of dynastic succession and sacred sites. The Gateway of the Sun, often depicted as much larger in scale than it actually is ..., is here shown in truly monumental scale and graced by imagery drawn from a range of sources.... The engraving established a new, forceful image of the Inca past that this work as a whole aimed to transmit."--Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas, pages 176-177

Atlas has imprint: Viena : Litografia del instituto litográfico de D. Leopoldo Müller, 1851

"Rivero's interest in understanding Precolumbian civilizations developed at a time when the Incas and their achievements were greatly exalted at the expense of other, earlier cultures. [Antigüedades peruanas], however, displays a critical spirit and scientific approach that built upon earlier research by [Alexander von] Humboldt on the subject."--Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900, volume III, page 596

"Antigüedades peruanas was in some ways a rather modern work for its time. The atlas format, with its wealth of illustrations featuring "Inca" object and monuments (most now known to be pre-Inca), placed a particular emphasis of the factual evidence of the artistic and architectural glories of the past."--Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas, pages 177

Published later in English under the title: Peruvian antiquities