Astrology in New Spain: manuscripts and art with Vanessa Portugal

Episode 15 September 11, 2020 00:58:56
Astrology in New Spain: manuscripts and art with Vanessa Portugal
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Astrology in New Spain: manuscripts and art with Vanessa Portugal

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Show Notes

Vanessa Portugal is an historian and art historian and an associate researcher of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work has focused on the use of astrological images in seventeenth and eighteenth-century New Spain, which was also the topic of her book, Las imágenes astrológicas en la Nueva España (2018). In this episode she shares some highlights of her work.

For more details on her research see: https://unam1.academia.edu/TaniaVanessaAlvarezPortugal

Las imágenes astrológicas en la Nueva España, Córdoba: UCOPress. Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, 2018 – http://www.uco.es/ucopress/index.php/es/2018-07-26-11-32-47/e-books/product/754-ebook-las-imagenes-astrologicas-en-la-nueva-espana

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