The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco : : Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico / / Jeanette Favrot Peterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Peterson, Jeanette Favrot,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian mona...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• Chapter One INTRODUCTION
• Chapter Two MALINALCO AND THE AUGUSTINIANS
• Chapter Three THE PAINTERS
• Chapter Four THE SOURCE
• Chapter Five THE IMAGERY: FLORA AND FAUNA
• Chapter Six PARADISE CONVERGED
• Chapter Seven UTOPIA AND IMPERIAL POLICY
• Chapter Eight THE AUGUSTINIAN MURAL PROGRAM
• Chapter Nine UTOPIA LOST
• 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
• NOTES
• REFERENCES CITED
• INDEX