The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Abstract

Examines in detail the murals painted on the vault walls of the Augustinian monastery at Malinalco, southwest of Mexico City, which have been progressively uncovered from layers of whitewash and restored since the 1970s. Shows how the combination of motives promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors, but also preserved a

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