Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions, Mixpantli: Space, Time, and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico and Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes, Rethinking Conquest is a recorded Zoom lecture series that features four scholars’ reflections on the moment of Mexico’s Conquest by Spaniards in the 15th century through three illustrated historical accounts and an analysis of the figure of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In this video, Prof. Jeanette Favrot Peterson explains the significance of the depiction of Our Lady of Guadalupe specific to Mexico.
Jeanette Favrot Peterson is a Professor Emerita in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her teaching and research have focused on the field of Precolumbian and colonial Latin America visual culture. She is the author of The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco (1993) and Visualizing Guadalupe (2014); with Dana Leibsohn she co-edited Seeing Across Cultures (2012) and The Florentine Codex (2019) with Kevin Terraciano. Peterson is one of the founding directors of The Florentine Codex Initiative at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, developing an ebook on Book 12 and an enhanced digital edition of the entire Florentine Codex.
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Mixpantli: Space, Time, and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico and Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes are co-curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni the Deputy Director, Program Director and the Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas as well as the Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director at LACMA; and Alyce de Carteret, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Art of the Ancient Americas Department at LACMA.
Both exhibitions were themselves conceived to rethink the traditional narrative of “conquest,” creating an opportunity on the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to center instead the creative resistance of Indigenous artists.
Their works—illustrated histories, featherworks, stone sculptures, cartographic paintings—tell a story not of defeat but of perseverance, renewal, and an enduring commitment to an Indigenous future.
This program was originally presented on Zoom on March 8, 2022.
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Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions, Mixpantli: Space, Time, and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico and Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes, Rethinking Conquest is a recorded Zoom lecture series that features four scholars’ reflections on the moment of Mexico’s Conquest by Spaniards in the 15th century through three illustrated historical accounts and an analysis of the figure of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In this video, Prof. Jeanette Favrot Peterson explains the significance of the depiction of Our Lady of Guadalupe specific to Mexico.
Jeanette Favrot Peterson is a Professor Emerita in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her teaching and research have focused on the field of Precolumbian and colonial Latin America visual culture. She is the author of The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco (1993) and Visualizing Guadalupe (2014); with Dana Leibsohn she co-edited Seeing Across Cultures (2012) and The Florentine Codex (2019) with Kevin Terraciano. Peterson is one of the founding directors of The Florentine Codex Initiative at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, developing an ebook on Book 12 and an enhanced digital edition of the entire Florentine Codex.
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Mixpantli: Space, Time, and the Indigenous Origins of Mexico and Mixpantli: Contemporary Echoes are co-curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni the Deputy Director, Program Director and the Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas as well as the Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director at LACMA; and Alyce de Carteret, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Art of the Ancient Americas Department at LACMA.
Both exhibitions were themselves conceived to rethink the traditional narrative of “conquest,” creating an opportunity on the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to center instead the creative resistance of Indigenous artists.
Their works—illustrated histories, featherworks, stone sculptures, cartographic paintings—tell a story not of defeat but of perseverance, renewal, and an enduring commitment to an Indigenous future.
This program was originally presented on Zoom on March 8, 2022.
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About LACMA
Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of nearly 140,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.
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