PLATE i. The town of Malinalco, Mexico, viewed from the Aztec cliffside site of Malinalco. The sixteenth-century Augustinian monastery and walled atrio are in the center. Photo courtesy of J. Adrian Fernandez.

PLATE 2. West fagade of church and partial view of cloister, Malinalco. Photo courtesy of J. Adrian Fernandez.

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PLATE 3. The two-storied cloister interior, Malinalco. Photo courtesy of J. Adrian Fernandez.

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PLATE 4. East lower cloister walkway with garden frescoes on east wall and barrel vault, Malinalco. Photo courtesy of J. Adrian Fernandez.

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P L A T E 5. Painted medallion with Malinalco's pre-Hispanic toponym and the central pelican-eagle motif Detail of cloister stairwell ceiling, Malinalco. Photo courtesy of J. Adrian Fernandez.

P L A T E 6. Detail of murals on upper wall and vault, South 2, Malinalco. Note the bees and song scroll with three glyphlike symbols: ilhuitl, shell, and flower.

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P L A T E 7. Upper cloister with distant view of fifteenth-century wall murals, Nuestra Seriora de La Rabida, Huelva, Spain. It is in this Franciscan monastery that Christopher Columbus found asylum and inspiration before his first New World voyage.

P L A T E 8. Mural of Noah's ark, flanked by St. Cristina and St. Augustine (c. 1545 — 1550). Upper cloister walk, principal cloister, Convento de Santa Ines, Seville.

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PLATE 9. Upper cloister walkway looking to the testera mural of the Crucifixion, southeast corner, Malinalco. Photo courtesy of J. Adrian Fernandez.

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PLATE io. Agony in the Garden, mural in the southwest corner of the upper cloister, Malinalco.

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PLATE i i . Fray Francisco de la Cruz, one of the seven original Augustinians. The inscription commemorates the friars' arrival in Mexico in 1533. De-tail of mural on inner pier in the por-teria, Malinalco.

PLATE 12. Detail of the murals depicting the eremitic life, lower cloister, northeast corner, Culhuacan, Mexico City.

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