In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1910, Mexican artists, scholars, and government officials worked to revive the image and idea of the original Mexica (Aztec) capital in Modern Mexico City. A tight social network of thinkers oversaw a conceptual excavation of Tenochtitlan in the context of a rapidly modernizing urban landscape, actively rewriting the myth of the capital's Hispanic origins in favor of a mestizo civic identity--a process that in many ways continues to this day.
Delia Cosentino (PhD, UCLA) is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University. Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library, Cosentino is co-author of _Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City_ with Adriana Zavala (University of Texas Press, 2023) and _Las Joyas de Zinacantepec: Arte Colonial en el Monasterio de San Miguel_ (Colegio Mexiquense, 2007).
