Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule

Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule

City Growth and Community - Owned Land in Mexico City

Sixteen years after the promulgation of the reforms to Article 27 that regulates land tenure in Mexico, there is consensus among political authorities, public officials, private investors, and scholars that the outcomes have been completely different than were predicted. In spite of the important changes produced in the legal status, internal organization, and governmental interactions of the a...

Painting and Society The Formation of the Persian Painting in the 14th Century

Persian painting has usually been studied from historical point of views. But its formation is rooted in a specific social context. In this study, we will try to contextualize it and we will show that this social context has a crucial role regarding its aesthetic. Persian painting is an art of royal courts and it represents the life of princes combined with Persian epic legendes. This social co...

Felix Platter: a sixteenth-century medical student.

Physicians and surgeons in sixteenth-century Venice.

THE RELATIONSHIP between physicians and surgeons was of fundamental concern to the medical profession in the sixteenth century as in other periods. The superior position enjoyed by the physicians has long been recognized. It was they who controlled medical education in the universities, and, to a considerable extent, medical practice in the towns. Their training, which in Italy included up to e...