Art Across Cultures: Americas

Slide list 11

Nature as Religious Metaphor: New Spain, 16^th century

Augustinian Monastery, at Malinalco, 16^th century

Exterior view

Cloister

Details: bees and song scrolls, Eagle/Pelican, Zapote Tree, Heraldic Shields

Terms:

Augustinian Order, arrives in Mexico in 1533

Paradise Garden, Post-apocalypse New Jerusalem

Encomienda system

Aztecs

Renaissance ideals: Plateresque style, Humanist ideology

Hybrid forms