Mestizo Aztec Art Post-Conquest
Mestizo= “mixed race,” mixed, hybrid. Refers to biological descendants of natives & Spanish; also to art w/ both European and Aztec/indigenous aspects but neither wholly one nor the other
combined indigenous art technology with Europeanized forms of representation
Includes Christian or Christianized themes, motifs, and messages with native motifs and style
Became increasingly “three-dimensional”
Often carried both pictographs and Spanish script annotations
Double duty: helped Christianize the natives; helped Spanish to administrate natives through familiar visual forms