Unearthing the Secrets of Color
How artist Sandy Rodriguez uses a 16th-century manuscript as contemporary inspiration
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Florentine codex
Remembering the Toxcatl Massacre: The Beginning of the End of Aztec Supremacy
A seminal manuscript tells the Indigenous side of a historic battle
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Who Writes History? Competing Narratives about the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World.
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PODCAST: Golden Kingdoms – Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas
Explore the idea of luxury in pre-Columbian America.
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Getty Voices: Encounters with Indigenous Mexico
Maps document the cultural encounters of the Spanish Conquest.
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Curating The Aztec Pantheon
The premise of The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire is a unique one: that just as classical antiquity colored Spanish perceptions of... Read More