Synthesis and survival: the native presence in sixteenth-century murals of New Spain.

'Study of the survival of pre-Hispanic style and iconography in mural cycles executed by native artists in the Augustinian monasteries of Malinalco, Ixmiquilpan, Actopan, and Santa María Xoxoteca in Central Mexico in the 16th c. Syncretic motifs discussed include pulque-drinking standing for the deadly sin of drunkenness; and native flora and fauna in the representation of the Garden of Paradise' (BHA).