Newberry Library Presents: The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico September 28, 2006 – January 13, 2007 – Chicago, Illinois

“The Newberry Library presents The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico, a free exhibition that offers a fresh perspective on the Aztecs in Colonial Mexico and their impact on the heritage and culture of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican-Americans.

The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico insightfully addresses the 300 years after the conquest that Aztec-Nahua colonial communities, artists, scholars, writers, landowners, and religious leaders worked, litigated, published, wrote, and interacted with Spaniards. The result was a rich cultural exchange of economic, intellectual, and artistic labor. Approximately 60 items will be on display, and will reveal some of the most spectacular illustrated sources from Colonial Mexico.
Highlights from the exhibit include: “

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