Title The paradise garden murals of Malinalco : utopia and empire in sixteenth-century Mexico / Jeanette Favrot Peterson

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Malinalco and the Augustinians. Conquest and Control of Malinalco. The Augustinian Program. Construction of the Monastery of Malinalco -- Ch. 3. The Painters. European and Native Painting Styles. The Artistic Team and the Tlacuilo. Training of Native Artists -- Ch. 4. The Sources. Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Mural Precedents. Illustrated Books and Graphics. Verdure and Armorial Tapestry -- Ch. 5. The Imagery: Flora and Fauna. Flora Identified. Fauna Identified. Meaning of Flora and Fauna -- Ch. 6. Paradise Converged. Gardens and Curing. Gardens as Cosmic Paradigms. Gardens as Paradise -- Ch. 7. Utopia and Imperial Policy. The New World as a Terrestrial Paradise. Patronage and Program. Mendicant Dominion and Heraldry in the Garden Murals -- Ch. 8. The Augustinian Mural Program. Public and Private Zones in the Monastery. The Malinalco Mural Program. Augustinian Eschatological Murals -- Ch. 9. Utopia Lost. Mendicant Decline. Whitewashing the Murals Appendix A Sixteenth-Century Mexican Monasteries Visited -- Appendix B Fifteenth- And Early Sixteenth-Century Murals in Spain -- Appendix C Flora in the Malinalco Garden Frescoes -- Appendix D Fauna in the Malinalco Garden Frescoes -- Appendix E Sixteenth-Century Mural Themes in Mexico and Primary Monastic Locations Analysis Animals in art Aztec art Aztec mythology Botany Mexico Malinalco Region Gardens in art Geschichte Malinalco (Monastery) Mural painting and decoration, Colonial Mexico Malinalco Mural painting and decoration, Mexican Mexico Malinalco Plants in art Symbolism in art Mexico Malinalco Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-216) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Malinalco (Monastery) SUBJECT Malinalco (Monastery) fast Malinalco -- Kloster. swd Subject Mural painting and decoration, Colonial -- Mexico -- Malinalco Mural painting and decoration, Mexican -- Mexico -- Malinalco Plants in art. Gardens in art. Animals in art. Symbolism in art Botany -- Mexico Aztec art. Aztec mythology. ART -- Techniques -- General. ART / Caribbean & Latin American Animals in art Aztec art Aztec mythology Botany Gardens in art Mural painting and decoration, Colonial Mural painting and decoration, Mexican Plants in art Symbolism in art Art aztèque. Religion aztèque. Animaux -- Dans l'art. Plantes -- Dans l'art. Peinture et décoration murales -- Mexique. Signes et symboles -- Dans l'art -- Mexique -- Malinalco. Wandmalerei Mexico Mexico -- Malinalco Form Electronic book ISBN 9780292769182 0292769180

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