Portraying the Aztec Past - The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin

Offering the first extended comparison of three closely related painted manuscripts from colonial Mexico, this book reveals how differences in their materials and composition show the evolution of the native pictorial tradition.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Portraying the Aztec Past
• Chapter 2. Codex Boturini: A Pictographic Paradigm
• Chapter 3. Master and Apprentice: The Multiple Artistic Hands in Codex Azcatitlan
• Chapter 4. Don Martín Ecatzin: Codex Azcatitlan’s Cosmic Hero
• Chapter 5. Traitors, Intrigue, and the Cosmic Cycle in Codex Azcatitlan
• Chapter 6. Codex Aubin and the Influence of Printed Books
• Chapter 7. Conclusion: Central Mexican Manuscript Painting in Transition
• Epilogue. Life after Production
• Appendix 1. Translation of the Nahuatl Glosses in Codex Azcatitlan
• Appendix 2. Translation of the Nahuatl Text in Codex Aubin
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the author

Angela Herren Rajagopalan is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Herren Rajagopalan
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2018
• EAN: 9781477316078
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1607-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history