In the present article we provide a detailed description and interpretation, accompanied by new high-resolution photos, of one of the two Mesoamerican wooden mosaic-covered objects held by the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the first part of the text we offer a reconstruction of the object’s collection history, arguing that it could have been part of a lot of artefacts brought to Italy by the Dominican friar Domingo de Betanzos in 1532-33. Then, a new iconographic analysis of the object is provided, leading to a new interpretation of the figure – previously described as an image of Tlaloc, Yacatecuhtli, or Ehecatl – as a representation of the deity known as Xolotl. In the final section we also propose that the artefact could o...
A seventeenth-century icon of the Noli me Tangere (1994,0501.3), in the collections of the Departmen...
A provenance, date, and owner are suggested for an anonymous mummy bandage fragment kept at the Muse...
textThis dissertation examines the state and tourist discourses that promote the Mexican state of O...
In the present article we provide a detailed description and interpretation, accompanied by new high...
It has been customary to trace back to the early shipments sent by the Spanish conquistadors most of...
El artículo presenta los resultados de un investigación sobre la iconografía y la historia coleccion...
The article focuses on the study of a painting conserved in the collection of Ritiro of S. Pellegrin...
Notice dans le numéro 73 de Totem, magazine du Musée d'Ethnographie de GenèveThis article aims to gi...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-112)The primary concern of this thesis is to examine ...
This article analyzes an important symbol of power among the current Tsotsiles of Chamula, Chiapas: ...
International audience"The murals at the archaeological site of Cacaxtla, in the Mexican state of Tl...
Seventy objects, including pre-Columbian Taino pieces, colonial silver, popular religious art, and c...
This article discusses the Descrittione dell’India occidentale, a neglected Italian sixteenth-centur...
In the colonial Mexico, the folding screens were considered luxury objects and a place of experiment...
This article deals with interpretations of images on silver ecclesiastical objects from the Southern...
A seventeenth-century icon of the Noli me Tangere (1994,0501.3), in the collections of the Departmen...
A provenance, date, and owner are suggested for an anonymous mummy bandage fragment kept at the Muse...
textThis dissertation examines the state and tourist discourses that promote the Mexican state of O...
In the present article we provide a detailed description and interpretation, accompanied by new high...
It has been customary to trace back to the early shipments sent by the Spanish conquistadors most of...
El artículo presenta los resultados de un investigación sobre la iconografía y la historia coleccion...
The article focuses on the study of a painting conserved in the collection of Ritiro of S. Pellegrin...
Notice dans le numéro 73 de Totem, magazine du Musée d'Ethnographie de GenèveThis article aims to gi...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-112)The primary concern of this thesis is to examine ...
This article analyzes an important symbol of power among the current Tsotsiles of Chamula, Chiapas: ...
International audience"The murals at the archaeological site of Cacaxtla, in the Mexican state of Tl...
Seventy objects, including pre-Columbian Taino pieces, colonial silver, popular religious art, and c...
This article discusses the Descrittione dell’India occidentale, a neglected Italian sixteenth-centur...
In the colonial Mexico, the folding screens were considered luxury objects and a place of experiment...
This article deals with interpretations of images on silver ecclesiastical objects from the Southern...
A seventeenth-century icon of the Noli me Tangere (1994,0501.3), in the collections of the Departmen...
A provenance, date, and owner are suggested for an anonymous mummy bandage fragment kept at the Muse...
textThis dissertation examines the state and tourist discourses that promote the Mexican state of O...