Ritual and narrative scenes unfold in four horizontal registers

Artista: Anónimo mixteco

Siglo XVI · México

Colección: Arte Mixteca

This image is an anonymous Mixtec codex depicting ritual and narrative scenes distributed in four horizontal registers. The vibrant and detailed style, with anthropomorphic figures and symbolic elements, is characteristic of the pre-Columbian art of the Mixtec region, probably from the Postclassic period.

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