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The day of the Mexican flag Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkatɬ aːˈmoʃtɬi]) are books written by pre-Columbian and colonial-era Aztecs. These codices provide some of the best primary sources for Aztec culture. The pre-Columbian codices mostly do not in fact use the codex form (that of a modern paperback) and are, or originally were, long folded sheets. They also differ from European books in that they mostly consist of images and pictograms; they were  not meant to symbolize spoken or written narratives.The colonial era codices not only contain Aztec pictograms, but also Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally Latin. Some are entirely in Nahuatl without pictorial content. Although there are very few surviving pre-conquest codices, the tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture; scholars now have access to a body of around 500 colonial-era codices. Colonia...
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  Madonna and Child was painted by one of the most influential artists of the late 13th and early 14th century, Duccio di Buoninsegna. This iconic image of the Madonna and Child, seen throughout the history of western art, holds significant value in terms of stylistic innovations of religious subject matter that would continue to evolve for centuries. The Madonna and Child is understood to be an intimate, devotional image. Some evocations of this understanding come from the burnt edges on the bottom of the original engaged frame caused by burning candles that likely would have sat just beneath Looking past the abrupt simplicity of the image, one can begin to understand the changes Duccio was applying to the depiction of religious figures in painting during the early 14th century. Duccio followed other innovative Italian artists of the time like Giotto, both of whom strove to move beyond the purely iconic Byzantine and Italo-Byzantine canon and attempted to create a more tangible c...
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   Museo Mural Diego Rivera Exposición Rostros y retratos CIUDAD DE MÉXICO. Más de 120 esculturas creadas por artistas como Ángela Gurría, Arnaldo Coen, Gelsen Gas, Gabriel Ponzanelli, María Lagunes, Federico Cantú , Fideas Elizondo y Luis Ortiz Monasterio se exhiben desde ayer en el Museo Mural Diego Rivera como parte de la exposición Rostros y retratos, presentada como “una larga investigación en torno al retrato escultórico en México”. La muestra, que integra retratos de personajes como Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Diego Rivera, Marie Curie, David Alfaro Siqueiros y hasta el subcomandante Marcos, fueron realizadas en bronce, yeso, madera, piedra, mármol y aluminio, se divide en cuatro núcleos temáticos bajo la curaduría de María Estela Duarte. La exposición que se presenta en el Museo Mural Diego Rivera presenta piezas de colecciones privadas e institucionales y distintas técnicas escultóricas En el Museo Mural Diego Rivera se presenta la exposición Rostros y retratos: expres...
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