Habitation des Azteques frente al Pabellón de México en la Expo Universal de París, 1899 x J. L. Charles Garnier
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The Palacio Azteca, Mexico’s pavilion at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, was designed by historian Antonio Peñafiel and engineer Antonio M. Anza as a synthesis of Mexican historical styles set in a modern context. The result was a neo-Aztec temple in the Beaux-Arts style. It was covered in geometric relief patterns, and the heavily ornamented pediment over its entrance was capped by an Aztec Calendar Stone-like disk.
Niches containing bronze statues of Aztec emperors and other Mexican figures by Jesús Contreras, an artist favored by the Porfirian regime, punctuated its facade.
Source: getty.edu
Pabellón de México en la Exposición Universal, París, Francia, 1889 [demolido] - Antonio M. Anza, Antonio Peñafiel y Jesús F. Contreras
Algunas de las esculturas del pabellón hoy se encuentran en el Jardín de la Triple Alianza en Filomeno Mata y Tacuba del Centro de la Ciudad de México.