This event occurred on April 17, 2015.
Session 1: The Art of the Tlacuilo
Introductory remarks by Barbara Fuchs and Jeanette Favrot Peterson
“Painting Figures of Speech/Writing Information: Images and Texts in the Florentine Codex”
Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Reading between the Lines in Book XII”
Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussion led by Daniela Bleichmar
This two-day conference at UCLA and the Getty Research Institute considers how the many Nahua contributors to the Florentine Codex and their Spanish interpreter, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, used images and alphabetic texts to represent themselves and their cultures to mixed audiences in Mexico and Europe during the late 16th century. Participants examine the epistemological implications of a process that culminated in this unique manuscript, the product of a complex intercultural dialogue.
The Florentine Codex is a singular manuscript created by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists. Written in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish texts and hand painted with nearly 2,500 images, the encyclopedic codex is widely regarded as the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico. Upon completion in 1577 at the Imperial Colegio de la Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco (today Mexico City), the manuscript was sent to Europe where it entered the Medici family’s library in Florence—thus, the Florentine Codex.
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