The paradise garden murals of Malinalco: utopia and empire in sixteenth-century Mexico.

"Study of the 16th c. mural paintings in the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco and their European and indigenous sources, demonstrating how the paintings promoted the political and religious agenda of the Spanish conquerors, while preserving a record of Aztec rituals and imagery murals discovered during the 1974-75 conservation programs represent florial motifs, with native species of birds and animals, and medaillons with ecclesiastical monograms, those discovered in 1983-84 represent religious subjects and the eremitic life" (BHA).