Saint John the Evangelist (New Spain, 17th century), feather mosaic and paper on copper (Collection Daniel Liebsohn, all images courtesy Himer Verlag unless indicated) Cover of ‘Images Take Flight: ...

The Aztec rulers often expressed their power with body modification, such as labrets pierced through the lower lip. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a spectacular example of this ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1520 the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and his men landed in Mexico. The cities and artistic treasures they found there astounded them, and golden, feathered, and turquoise objects presented ...

Networking in Brussels in the summer of 1520, Albrecht Dürer saw some of the first Aztec art to reach Europe, and flipped out. "In all my life I have never seen anything that gladdened my heart so ...

The essay, whose insight derives from a unique combination of sympathy and horror, was published in English translation in 1986 as Extinct America in the art-theoretical journal October, and ...