Lecture: Diagnosis and Presence: The Ekphrasis of a Toxcati Ixiptia in the Florentine Code

Please join us for lectures as part of our ongoing spring lecture series in early modern European Art!

Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Nelson, Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
 

J. Nelson

Caption: Mexica makers and Bernardino de Sahagún. Detail from Tezcatlipoca’s feast (Toxcatl), from The Florentine Codex of the Historia universale de las cosas de Nueva españa, 1575-1578, ink and wash on paper, codex dimensions 31 x 21.2 cm. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence. (Book II: fol 31r.) Photo credit: World Digital Library.