[Aztlan] lecture announcement

[Dicesare,Catherine]

Denver Art Museum
Alianza de la Artes Americanas-sponsored lecture by

Dr. Catherine DiCesare
Sunday, September 14, 2008

“Visualizing the Sacred:  Images of ‘Gods’ and ‘Idols’ in Colonial Aztec Manuscripts”

Images of indigenous gods and Pre-Columbian ritual sacrifices fill lavishly-illustrated manuscripts created in sixteenth-century Mexico by native manuscript painters collaborating with Spanish Christian friars.  This presentation investigates these manuscripts as complex, cross-cultural documents that describe Pre-Columbian Aztec ritual activities and notions of the sacred in ways simultaneously meaningful to Christian European missionaries and empowering to native Aztec subjects.

Lecturer:  Dr. Catherine DiCesare, Assistant Professor, Art History, C.S.U.

Date:  Sunday, September 14, 2008

Time:  2:30 p.m.

Location:  Denver Art Museum, North Building, Lower Level Lecture Room
Admission prices:  Alianza members - free; DAM members - $5; Others - $10
Reservations are not required

Phone for information:  303-756-8282
Sponsored by:  Alianza de las Artes Americanas, the support group for the New World Department