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      • A Nahuatl account of the pre-Hispanic events at Chicomoztoc, ca. 1550
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      • Bartolomé de las Casas protests the seizing of idols, 16th century
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Christopher Columbus’s chaplain encounters the zemis of the Taíno, ca. 1496
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Diego de Landa discovers the architecture of the Maya, 1566
        • History Visual Culture
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      • José de Acosta praises the textiles of the Andes, 1590
        • History Visual Culture
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      • King Phillip II dictates the layout of new towns, 1573
        • History Visual Culture
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      • La Malinche is reunited with her family, 1523
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Moteuczoma cedes his throne to the Spanish, 1519
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • Native merchants pay their taxes in Coyoacan, Mexico, ca. 1570
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Regulations for the sculptors’ guild of Mexico City, 1589
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Santo Domingo is sacked by Sir Francis Drake, 1598
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Should Indians be allowed to wear silk? Quito, 1593
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Smelting silver in the New World, ca. 1586
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The arts and rituals of Nahua featherworkers, past and present, ca. 1570
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The conquistador Hernán Cortés marvels at the Aztec capital, 1520
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The Sacred Landscape of the Inka, Cuzco, 16th century
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Viceroy Toledo orders that designs on keros be destroyed, 1574
        • History Visual Culture
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    • 17th
      • A Catholic priest rebuts Quechua beliefs, 1649
        • History Visual Culture
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      • A play from the Tenth Muse of New Spain, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, ca. 1680
        • History Visual Culture
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      • A primordial flood covers the Andes, ca. 1608
        • History Visual Culture
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      • An Amerindian woman makes her will in Santiago, Chile, 1646
        • History Visual Culture
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      • An archbishop cracks down on the dress of Hieronymite nuns, 1673
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s description of a Guaraní ancestral shrine in Paraguay, 1639
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Black slaves and white owners in Guatemala, 1648
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Encomenderos in Cuzco petition the king after the great earthquake of 1650
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Garcilaso de la Vega remembers the Inka way of dressing, 1609
        • History Visual Culture
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      • How indigenous masons learned to create vaults, 1615
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Last will and testament of don Juan Duchisela, a cacique from Yaruquíes, Ecuador, 1605
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Letter of Fray Francisco Corbera on the eve of a Pueblo Indian uprising, 1696
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Melchor Pérez Holguín takes on an assistant in Potosí, 1678
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Nahua curers invoke the Catholic saints, 1629
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Nican Mopohua: The Virgin Mary appears to Juan Diego in Mexico City, ca. 1695
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Prohibitions on blacks and mulattos in New Spain, 1612
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The Inca kings celebrate the Spanish king’s marriage in Potosí, 1600
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The Jesuits plan a new town for the Guaraní in Paraguay’s Amazon, 1613
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The king considers whether Havana’s black women should be forced to dance, 1623
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The marriage of the heiress to the Inka throne, 17th century
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The town council of Tlaxcala takes office, New Spain, 1627
        • History Visual Culture
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    • 18th
      • Childhood virtues of St. Rose of Lima, 1711
        • History Visual Culture
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      • A Guayaquil native pokes fun of Quiteño piety, ca. 1760
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      • A Maya woman divides her possessions, 1766
        • History Visual Culture
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      • A monastic garden in Puebla, ca. 1760
        • History Visual Culture
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      • A night watchman’s account of a riotous tavern in Lima, 1822
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      • A nun dreams of a house of horrors, Quito, ca. 1760
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Antonio de Ulloa’s account of the clothing of worn in Quito, Ecuador, 1746
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Chinese goods are to be properly taxed, 1746
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      • León y Gama interprets a statue of the Aztec Coatlicue, 1792
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      • Pictures in Count Xala’s Mexico City mansion, 1784
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      • The interior of a church in Lima, ca. 1740
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      • The marquesa remakes her gift in Potosí, 1749
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The Viceroy is inaugurated in Lima, 1736
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The Viceroy of Peru sends casta paintings to Spain, 1770
        • History Visual Culture
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      • The wife of the rebel Tupac Amaru II is executed in Cuzco, 1781
        • History Visual Culture
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      • Why is there no worthy ancient sculpture in Oaxaca? 1806
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  • Map of Tenochtitlan and the Gulf of Mexico from Cortés’ Second Letter
  • Map of Tenochtitlan and the Gulf of Mexico from Cortés’ Second Letter
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      • Chinese goods are to be properly taxed, 1746
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • How indigenous masons learned to create vaults, 1615
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • José de Acosta praises the textiles of the Andes, 1590
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • Melchor Pérez Holguín takes on an assistant in Potosí, 1678
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Regulations for the sculptors’ guild of Mexico City, 1589
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Smelting silver in the New World, ca. 1586
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • The arts and rituals of Nahua featherworkers, past and present, ca. 1570
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • The interior of a church in Lima, ca. 1740
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      • The marquesa remakes her gift in Potosí, 1749
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • A night watchman’s account of a riotous tavern in Lima, 1822
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • Black slaves and white owners in Guatemala, 1648
        • History and Visual Culture
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      • La Malinche is reunited with her family, 1523
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Last will and testament of don Juan Duchisela, a cacique from Yaruquíes, Ecuador, 1605
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Should Indians be allowed to wear silk? Quito, 1593
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The king considers whether Havana’s black women should be forced to dance, 1623
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The marriage of the heiress to the Inka throne, 17th century
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The Viceroy of Peru sends casta paintings to Spain, 1770
        • History and Visual Culture
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    • Otherworldly Images 01_Villalpando_Adoration
    • Otherworldly Images 02_Cieza de Leon
    • Otherworldly Images 03_Salvator Mundi
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    • Otherworldly Images 05_Pecos
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    • Otherworldly Images 07_Luisa del Sacramento
    • Otherworldly Images 08_Remedios
    • Otherworldly Surveying
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    • Patterns Images 01_Plan of Mendoza
    • Patterns Images 02_Coca leaf bag
    • Patterns Images 03_Puebla vessel
    • Patterns Images 04_Chinese cover
    • Patterns Images 05_Antigua convent
    • Patterns Images 06_Cacica
    • Patterns Images 07_Dona Mariana
    • Patterns Images 08_Coffee pot
    • Patterns Surveying
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      • A Maya woman divides her possessions, 1766
        • History And Visual Culture
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      • A monastic garden in Puebla, ca. 1760
        • History And Visual Culture
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      • An Amerindian woman makes her will in Santiago, Chile, 1646
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • An archbishop cracks down on the dress of Hieronymite nuns, 1673
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Antonio de Ulloa’s account of the clothing of worn in Quito, Ecuador, 1746
        • History And Visual Culture
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      • King Phillip II dictates the layout of new towns, 1573
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Letter of Fray Francisco Corbera on the eve of a Pueblo Indian uprising, 1696
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Native merchants pay their taxes in Coyoacan, Mexico, ca. 1570
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Pictures in Count Xala’s Mexico City mansion, 1784
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Prohibitions on blacks and mulattos in New Spain, 1612
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The Jesuits plan a new town for the Guaraní in Paraguay’s Amazon, 1613
        • History And Visual Culture
        • Sources
    • Political Bibliography
    • Political Images 01_Korikancha
    • Political Images 02_Cholula map
    • Political Images 03_Drake map
    • Political Images 04_Kero with Inka Village
    • Political Images 05_Morcillo entrada
    • Political Images 06_Santiago sculpture
    • Political Images 07_Escudo
    • Political Images 08_Belt with Tupac Amaru II
    • Political Surveying
    • Political Texts
      • Viceroy Toledo orders that designs on keros be destroyed, 1574
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Encomenderos in Cuzco petition the king after the great earthquake of 1650
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Moteuczoma cedes his throne to the Spanish, 1519
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Santo Domingo is sacked by Sir Francis Drake, 1598
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The Inca kings celebrate the Spanish king’s marriage in Potosí, 1600
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The town council of Tlaxcala takes office, New Spain, 1627
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The Viceroy is inaugurated in Lima, 1736
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The wife of the rebel Tupac Amaru II is executed in Cuzco, 1781
        • History and Visual Culture
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    • Pre-Columbian Bibliography
    • Pre-Columbian Images 01_Pyramid of the Sun
    • Pre-Columbian Images 02_Khipu
    • Pre-Columbian Images 03_El Morro
    • Pre-Columbian Images 04_Guaman Poma planting scene
    • Pre-Columbian Images 05_Blaeu map
    • Pre-Columbian Images 06_Don Marcos Chiquathopa
    • Pre-Columbian Images 07_Coatlicue
    • Pre-Columbian Images 08_Chimborazo
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      • A Nahuatl account of the pre-Hispanic events at Chicomoztoc, ca. 1550
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • A play from the Tenth Muse of New Spain, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, ca. 1680
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • A primordial flood covers the Andes, ca. 1608
        • History Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Diego de Landa discovers the architecture of the Maya, 1566
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Garcilaso de la Vega remembers the Inka way of dressing, 1609
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • León y Gama interprets a statue of the Aztec Coatlicue, 1792
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • The conquistador Hernán Cortés marvels at the Aztec capital, 1520
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
      • Why is there no worthy ancient sculpture in Oaxaca? 1806
        • History and Visual Culture
        • Sources
    • Visions Bibliography
    • Visions texts
      • Childhood virtues of St. Rose of Lima, 1711
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • A Catholic priest rebuts Quechua beliefs, 1649
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • A Guayaquil native pokes fun of Quiteño piety, ca. 1760
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • A nun dreams of a house of horrors, Quito, ca. 1760
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s description of a Guaraní ancestral shrine in Paraguay, 1639
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • Bartolomé de las Casas protests the seizing of idols, 16th century
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • Christopher Columbus’s chaplain encounters the zemis of the Taíno, ca. 1496
        • history and visual culture
        • Sources
      • Nahua curers invoke the Catholic saints, 1629
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
      • Nican Mopohua: The Virgin Mary appears to Juan Diego in Mexico City, ca. 1695
        • history and visual culture
        • Sources
      • The Sacred Landscape of the Inka, Cuzco, 16th century
        • history and visual culture
        • sources
  • Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820

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Please credit as: Leibsohn, Dana, and Barbara E. Mundy, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820. http://fordham.edu/vistas, 2015.