The paradise garden murals of Malinalco : utopia and empire in sixteenth-century Mexico / Jeanette Favrot Peterson

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PrefaceChapter One. IntroductionChapter Two. Malinalco and the Augustinians Conquest and Control of MalinalcoThe Augustinian ProgramConstruction of the Monastery of MalinalcoChapter Three. The Painters European and Native Painting StylesThe Artistic Team and the TlacuiloTraining of Native ArtistsChapter Four. The Sources Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Mural PrecedentsIllustrated Books and GraphicsVerdure and Armorial TapestryChapter Five. The Imagery: Flora and Fauna Flora IdentifiedFauna IdentifiedMeaning of Flora and FaunaChapter Six. Paradise Converged Gardens and CuringGardens as Cosmic ParadigmsGardens as ParadiseChapter Seven. Utopia and Imperial Policy The New World as a Terrestrial ParadisePatronage and ProgramMendicant Dominion and Heraldry in the Garden MuralsChapter Eight. The Augustinian Mural Program Public and Private Zones in the MonasteryThe Malinalco Mural ProgramAugustinian Eschatological MuralsChapter Nine. Utopia Lost Mendicant DeclineWhitewashing the MuralsAppendix A. Sixteenth-Century Mexican Monasteries VisitedAppendix B. Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Murals in SpainAppendix C. Flora in the Malinalco Garden FrescoesAppendix D. Fauna in the Malinalco Garden FrescoesAppendix E. Sixteenth-Century Mural Themes in Mexico and Primary Monastic LocationsNotesReferences CitedIndex

Examines in detail the murals painted on the vault walls of the Augustinian monastery at Malinalco, southwest of Mexico City, which have been progressively uncovered from layers of whitewash and restored since the 1970s.

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