Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
The date of creation
What is 1541-1542?
What is the style of this piece
What is gilding?
Who is the artist behind this piece
Miguel González?
The painting displays a...
Spanish father and Indigenous mother with their son
What are the materials used in this piece
What is pigment and paper?
What materials were used
What is gold, canvas, and oil painting?
Today the original tilma image hangs in...
What is Mexico City?
The family appears...
What is calm, harmonious, and loving?
This piece was a schematic diagram of Tenochtitlan with the city divided into...
What is 4 parts?
These prints were models for specific military positions and demonstrated how to...
What is fire a gun?
Juan Diego was walking across the Hill of Tepeyac when a woman appeared and spoke to him in Nahuatl, his native tongue, this lady revealed herself to be...
What is the Virgin Mary?
They are commonly produced in
What is sets of sixteen?
What was the function of the piece
What is to record information?
The angel is holding a gun but is not...
What is the angel does not hold the trigger nor does he hold it at eye level
González uses pieces of what to form most of the Virgin Mary’s clothing
What is mother-of-pearl shell?
Some of these casta series were commissioned by...
What is Viceroys?
What did the Aztecs ancestors see when they were leaving their home, that they took "as a sign" that they should settle there
What is a eagle on top of a cactus
The Latin inscriptions in the upper left corner of the painting Asiel Timor Dei are approximates of the original names of angels, and were related to...
What is the names of planetary and elemental angels in indigenous religions?
The manner in which the Virgin of Guadalupe appears relates to
What is Immaculate Conception?
Casta paintings are often labeled with a...
What is a number and a textual inscription that documents the mixing that has occurred?