Museo de América
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The Museo de América is an art, archaeology, and ethnography museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the whole of the Americas from the Paleolithic period to the present day. It is one of the National Mus
Façade of the museum
Gallery formerly arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the museum. The painting of Guadalupe and the castas is no longer on view at the museum.
Luis de Mena, Casta painting with the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1750
Ceramic vessel representing a crustacean. Moche culture artwork from Peru.
Codex Tudela
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The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Aztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and other documents of the Magliabechiano Group.
Museo de América
…200–1000 AD) View of Seville, attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello (late 16th century) Maya Stele of Madrid (600–900 AD) Nazca pot (1–600 AD) Aztec Codex Tudela The Mulattos of Esmeraldas, by Andrés Sánchez Gallque (Quito School), 1599 (depósito del Museo del Prado). Conquest of Mexico. Reception of Moctezuma…
Folios 98 verso and 99 recto, showing aspects of the Aztec calendar: the birds of the day, the lords of the night, and the day signs.
Codex Tudela f. 69r detail