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Description: Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art
TO APPROACH THE GENERAL historiography of New World events before Columbus as to their esthetic valuation, it is necessary to review surviving efforts before 1700 to salvage American antiquity, beginning with Columbus. Early scholars of the subject follow, who at first were European and only later of Amerindian origin. Most of the former were friars and priests, but only one of the Indian group, Diego Valadés (whose mother is thought to be Tlaxcalan), was allowed to be of religious profession as …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.41-83
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00046.007

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