painting manuscripts, writing the pre-hispanic past in aerly colonial period
Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ('picture writing'), 'The Codex Xolotl', 'The Quinatzin Map', and 'The Tlohtzin ...