Marcos Cipac de Aquino
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Marcos Cipac de Aquino, informally known as Marcos the Indian, was a Nahuatl artist in sixteenth-century New Spain and is the purported painter of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The tilma painting of Guadalupe, Marcos Cipac de Aquino is proposed as being its creator.
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Tilmàtli
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A tilmàtli was a type of outer garment worn by men as a cloak/cape, documented from the late Postclassic and early Colonial eras among the Aztec and other peoples of central Mexico.
Marcos Cipac de Aquino
…Marcos de Aquino is also credited with the painting by Leoncio Garza-Valdés on the basis of a scientific investigation. While agreed upon that the tilma is a 16th century painting created by an indigenous American or workshop involving Nahua artists at Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, there is some…
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Aztec warrior priests and priests as depicted in the Codex Mendoza, wearing battle suits and tilmàtli tunics.
Nezahualpiltzintli wearing an elaborate tilmàtli.
Saint Juan Diego, wearing a tilmàtl during the 1531 Our Lady of Guadalupe Marian apparitions.