While the Aztec, or Mexica, people of today’s Central Mexico had no specific word that corresponds precisely to the Western term “art,” they had very specific ideas about what made objects cualli—a word for good or right in the Nahuatl language. Ellen Hoobler, a curator at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, surveys the architecture of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, site of modern Mexico City, and considers the techniques and materials of a limited selection of the Mexica’s surviving art treasures in stone, ceramics, and feather mosaics. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)