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Art --- art [fine art] --- Andes --- Indian art --- Indians of South America --- Art indien d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. --- Andes Region --- Art indien d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquités --- Art, Andean --- Indians --- Aborigines, American --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Amerindians --- Amerinds --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Art, Indian --- Indian art, Modern --- Pre-Columbian art --- Precolumbian art --- Andean art --- Antiquities --- Museums --- Civilization --- Harvard University. --- Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art --- Bliss (Robert Woods) Collection of Pre-Columbian Art --- Dumbarton Oaks --- Indigenous peoples --- art [discipline]

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The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

Manuscripts, Nahuatl. --- Aztec painting. --- Nahuatl language --- Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec art. --- Mixtec language --- Manuscrits nahuatl --- Peinture aztèque --- Nahuatl (Langue) --- Manuscrits mixtèques --- Art mixtèque --- Mixtèque (langue) --- Writing. --- Ecriture --- Aztec --- Mixtec [culture or style] --- Mexico --- Aztec painting --- Manuscripts, Mixtec --- Manuscripts, Nahuatl --- Mixtec art --- Aztec hieroglyphics --- Aztecs --- Hieroglyphics, Aztec --- Picture-writing, Aztec --- Tlaxcalan Indians --- Mixtec Indians --- Art, Mixtec --- Art, Mexican --- Manuscripts, Aztec --- Nahuatl manuscripts --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Painting, Aztec --- Aztec art --- Painting, Mexican --- Writing --- Art --- Painting --- Peinture aztèque --- Manuscrits mixtèques --- Art mixtèque --- Mixtèque (langue) --- Aztec [culture or style]

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Manuscripts, Nahuatl. --- Aztec painting. --- Nahuatl language --- Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec art. --- Mixtec language --- Manuscrits nahuatl --- Peinture aztèque --- Nahuatl (Langue) --- Manuscrits mixtèques --- Art mixtèque --- Mixtèque (langue) --- Writing. --- Writing. --- Ecriture --- Ecriture

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In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.

Aztec mythology. --- Aztec calendar. --- Manuscripts, Nahuatl --- Aztecs --- Rites and ceremonies.

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