Painting The Conquest: The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance

by Serge Gruzinski

Book by Gruzinski, Serge

242 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1991

About the author

born in Tourcoing in 1949, studied at the Ecole des Chartres from 1969 to 1973 and received his diploma there as an archivist and paleographer. During the following eleven years, within the framework of various research projects, Gruzinski traveled to a number of Mediterranean countries as well as North and South America. The precolonial history of Mexico was to become one of his major focuses. In 1985 he published his first book, Les Hommes-dieux du Mexique, now also available in Italian, Spanish, and English translations. In 1991 and 1993 the two volumes of his treatise La Découverte du Nouveau Monde appeared and in 1991 the book L’Amérique de la découverte peinte par les Indiens du Mexique described the aesthetic encounter between pre-Columbian art and the European Renaissance. Serge Gruzinski is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the assistant director of the Center of Research on Mexico, Central America and the Andes

Reviews

[jq · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow i dont usually add books that i read for university to goodreads but i devoured this in a couple hours... it is fascinating! and im considering potentially specialising in indigenous mexican art because damn its so beautiful and sophisticated and theres just SO MUCH STUFF! but also this has very little to do w iconoclasm so why was it on our reading list for this essay lol

[Ginny Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful illustrations. Too wordy and long for me to read.