The only known map of Mexico City painted with the collaboration of indigenous artists, the Mapa Uppsala (c. 1540) depicts the city and surrounding Valley of Mexico. This essay counters previous characterizations of the map’s formal composition as one that has fully espoused European cartographic modes. This essay contextualizes the Mapa Uppsala within the extant corpus of pre-Hispanic and early colonial cartographies to demonstrate that a closer analysis of pictorial conventions and structures can shed light on how and why the artists might have consciously selected particular pictorial strategies. El único mapa conocido de la ciudad de México pintado con la colaboración de artistas indígenas, el Mapa Uppsala (c. 1540) representa la ciudad...
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During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a drama...
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This dissertation analyzes the social function of native art in colonial New Spain through the exami...
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The mystery surrounding the map of the first Aztec imperial city, published in the Latin translation...
The mystery surrounding the map of the first Aztec imperial city, published in the Latin translation...
In mid-seventeenth century Europe, as “plain” Enlightenment mapping conventions displaced Renaissanc...
The map of Tenochtitlan published along with a Latin version of Heman Cortes\u27s letters (Nuremberg...
During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a drama...
The article discusses the convergence of Ethnography, Cartography and Geography in the f...
By the 20th century, 16th-century maps of Mexico City were not new, but their value was renewed by a...
Cet article examine la « construction » de l’Amérique hispanique par les cartographes du XVIe et du ...
This article questions the traditional historiography on town planning in sixteenth-century New Spai...
This dissertation analyzes the practice of making indigenous maps and their circulation in Oaxaca fr...
During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a drama...
The Latin American city is the realization of a European model of thought and customary practices th...
This dissertation analyzes the social function of native art in colonial New Spain through the exami...
This article builds upon issues examined in the author's Masters' thesis on Gerardo Suter's TranSitu
Este ensayo se propone analizar, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, pero con acento histórico...
The mystery surrounding the map of the first Aztec imperial city, published in the Latin translation...
The mystery surrounding the map of the first Aztec imperial city, published in the Latin translation...
In mid-seventeenth century Europe, as “plain” Enlightenment mapping conventions displaced Renaissanc...
The map of Tenochtitlan published along with a Latin version of Heman Cortes\u27s letters (Nuremberg...
During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a drama...
The article discusses the convergence of Ethnography, Cartography and Geography in the f...