Mapas de Merced (Continued)

Mapas de Merced (Continued)
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Wed, 12/01/2021 – 19:19

Map of Tezontepec, Hidalgo, 1571 (2021 copy)
Signed by Alcalde Martín de Salinas
Facsimile by Tlaoli Ramírez Téllez
Mixed media, acrylic, ink and watercolor on paper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
EX.8900.14

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Map of Zolipa Misantla, Veracruz, 1573 (2021 copy)
Signed by Corregidor Pedro Pérez de Zamora
Facsimile by Tlaoli Ramírez Téllez
Mixed media, acrylic, ink and watercolor on paper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
EX.8900.15

 

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In these two facsimile maps, we see the continuity of Mesoamerica’s cartographic imagery into the sixteenth century. Swirling and coiling shapes evoke the fluid movement of rivers. The green hills of Colipa bear the traditional grid-and-dot pattern that symbolizes the bumpy skin of the crocodilian earth. There are European elements, too. Churches emerge as regional centers, reconfiguring landscapes around new axes. And alphabetic writing provides a distinctive visual means to encode living histories in new ways. The map of Tezontepec in particular highlights the duality and complementarity of the post-Conquest landscape: to the right, a domineering peak, colored white, and its cavernous U-shaped quarry in pink, yellow, and green; to the left, the rectilinear facade of the Augustinian convent, rendered in the same colors. The two features mirror one another, a balanced pair that unifies sacred sites of creation.

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