Painting the conquest : the Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance / Serge Gruzinski; traducido por Deke Dusinberre.

Introduction -- An unprecedented experiment -- The Lords of Mexico -- A universe of images -- The invasion of European images -- I. The clash of cultures -- Getting used t the inconceivable : conquest -- The Tlaxcalan version : a prestigious collaboration -- The versions of the vanquished -- II. Secrets of an outlawed past -- Wrenching memories -- Divine forces -- A renaissance Christian interpretation -- Sacrifice -- "Staged" society -- Time and calendars -- Fate -- Clandestinity : dissident nobles, healers, and human-deities -- III. Remembrance of things past -- Recollecting ancestry and titles -- The splendor of bygone princes -- Nobles and commoners -- The harmonious rhythm of existence -- Death as commencement -- IV. Painting new Spain -- Collaboration : opportunism and compromise -- New society, new economy -- Native tradition meets European culture : the new intelligentsia -- A new language -- V. Taking stock of the world -- The world of the elders, or, things best forgotten -- The invasion of plants and animals -- A renaissance culture -- Aesop's fables -- The mystery of native maps -- Conclusion : The end of the a world -- Death throes of an artistic experiment.